Description
Book Synopsis
In this global gardener’s guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate.
It’s no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms…the long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep, and gardeners around the world are feeling the effects. Certain pests are staying active until much later in the season, many plants are blooming earlier, soils are eroding and degrading at a rapid pace, unpredictable rainfall is water-logging our gardens, and fiercer storms are uprooting trees and snapping branches. Not to mention the effects of prolonged drought in many parts of the world and the water rationing that comes with it. What’s a gardener to do?
We need to learn how to protect the garden against climate extremes, exotic pests, invasive weeds, and more<
Trade Review
“With the climate emergency, ‘gardening as usual’ no longer applies and we need to learn how to adapt to prolonged droughts, intense storms, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. The Climate Change Garden is the in-depth guide you need to learn how to manage climate extremes and build resilient gardens.” -- Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover
“This timely and essential guide will help gardeners implement key changes to increase the resiliency of their landscapes. The authors offer both pragmatic and creative approaches to address the challenges we are already experiencing and provide a wealth of actionable items to help us adjust our gardening traditions.” -- Susan Mulvihill, author of The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook and The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook
“I love this book. It’s the savvy guide to future proofing your garden against the increasing extremes of weather through climate change.” -- Frances Tophill, Gardeners’ World presenter and author of Rewild Your Garden
Table of Contents
Foreword: Why It’s No Longer Gardening as Usual
Introduction: A Taste of Things to Come?
Chapter 1: Too Much Water
Chapter 2: Heat and Drought
Chapter 3: Wind, Frost, and Snow
Chapter 4: Healthy Soil
Chapter 5: Design Ideas
Chapter 6: Working with Wildlife
Chapter 7: Pests, Diseases, and Aliens
Chapter 8: The Vegetable Garden
Chapter 9: In the Orchard
Chapter 10: Trees for the Future
Chapter 11: The Flower Garden
About the Authors
Index
