Botanic garden prepares for hotter and drier summers with plants needing less irrigationRapidly rising temperatures has led Wakehurst, which describes itself as “Kew Gardens’ wild garden in the country”, to take decisive action to future-proof its 535 acres in Sussex.Last year it created a new American prairie grassland, featuring 12 million seeds, 110 different plant species and over 50,000 live plants sown into six acres of landscape, and now one year on the results are on display. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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