Storms, resilient plants plus floral diversity counts
This week I turn my attention to my favourite resilient perennial for the garden, take a look at floral diversity and why it's important. Plus there's info on growing apricots and garden courses
Weather really seems to be dominating these newsletters, but when you write about climate change I suppose that can be expected. Since last week, there’s been some more topsy turvy weather and a couple of named storms. I experienced Storm Isha as I drove back from Stafford to Somerset on Sunday, and as I write, the garden is being buffeted by Storm Jocelyn. I think the SW will get off lightly this time, but for readers further north there are more strong winds.
So what is it with all these named storms? We didn’t use to name them. I heard a presenter explain that we now name storms to raise awareness of weather that might pose a risk to life. I suppose that’s a sort of good enough reason, but I think it does create a bit of panic.
One of the strongest storms in living memory was the Great Storm of October 1987 which didn’t get a name until after the event. Now that really was a storm - or hurricane. After a sleepless night, I ventured out in the morning to …