Welcome!
Hello! I’m Sally Morgan and I am a botanist, gardener, photographer and writing, living in Somerset, England.
I have long been interested in climate change and how its affecting wildlife and our gardens, so in 2018 I joined forces with Kim Stoddard and we wrote The Climate Change Garden, which was self published in 2019 and then revised and published by Quarto in 2023.
My main gardening focus is my organic walled garden where I aim is to create an ornamental and productive sustainable garden that is rich in biodiversity and resilient to climate change. Over the years I’ve has created a kitchen garden, orchard, herbaceous beds, water harvesting features, hedges, trees and shrubs and now there is a mosaic of habitats, which helps to boost biodiversity.
I love the unusual, especially vegetables, and experiment all the time with new techniques, always pushing the boundaries. I’m currently experimenting with crushed concrete as a substrate, creating permeable paths and measuring the garden’s carbon footprint.
My posts cover all matters relating to climate change, sustainability and organic gardening, helping you to become a climate savvy gardener.
Why should you subscribe?
There are lots of different Substack newsletters available now, so why subscribe to Climate Change Garden?
Well, until recently, relatively little attention has been paid to climate change and how its impacting our gardens. Only now are some gardeners walking up to the fact that its not just about planting some drought tolerant species. I’ve been looking at this issue for years, reading research papers, visiting gardens, talking to innovative farmers and growers, as well as carrying out trials and experiments myself, so I hope I have something different to offer.
I want to help you become a more resilient gardener better placed to cope with the challenges that climate change will throw our way in the coming years.
Free subscription The weekly newsletter is always free. Its published on Wednesdays and I share with you updates on what happening in the garden, problems I’ve encountered, gardens that I have visited, feedback on seminars and events that I have attended etc.
Paid subscription For £25 a year (less than a pack of seeds a month!) you will receive my new monthly newsletter (starting from 1 November 2024) which is full of information, plant profiles, research updates and more. Plus you get full access to the archives, which is already excess of 70 articles, something I hope you is a valuable asset. Coming in 2025, my paid subscribers will get access to recorded talks and presentations on climate change gardening.
About me
I have spent the last 30 years writing and editing, as well as gardening.
My most recent books are The Resilient Garden and Allotment Handbook (Chelsea Green, 2024), Living on an acre or less (Green Books, in 2016), The Healthy Vegetable Garden (Chelsea Green, 2021) plus The Climate Change Garden in 2023 (Quarto).
I’’m also an award winning children’s non fiction author. I have written more than 250 titles, on a wide range of topics from natural history and science to geography and engineering. It seems a lot, but some are only 32 pages!!!
I edited Organic Farming magazine published by the Soil Association for 12 years, and over that time, I met many inspiring organic farmers and growers and I have incorporated many of their innovative approaches in my own garden.
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I love discussing and sharing ideas with gardeners, giving a helping hand to newbies and offering my experiences , so I hope that this place is not just a place to read but to share and discuss via the Substack app.
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I really hope that you enjoy the newsletter and that you will be tempted to take out a paid subscription. Through the paid subscriptions, you support independent writing which is so important to the future of writers and their readers. It allows me to spend time creating tailored content for you to enjoy. This might be more in-depth articles, a podcast or interview with a gardener or writer, behind the scenes updates from shows, videos of visits to other gardens in the UK and overseas, giveaways from some of my favourite suppliers and invites to my garden open days and more …..
Thank you
Sally
