Can British gardens survive climate chaos?
04 Sep 2025 From summer heatwaves to winter downpours, Britain’s climate is becoming more extreme and unpredictable. What does it all mean for our very British...
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Study reveals Britain’s poetic obsession with the humble lawnmower
17 May 2025 Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to...
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UK plants flowering a month earlier due to climate change
02 Feb 2022 Climate change is causing plants in the UK to flower a month earlier on average, which could have profound consequences for wildlife, agriculture and...
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The grateful gardener who brought Apocalypse Now to a flowerbed
23 Nov 2020 He builds human-sized nests from twigs, spins circles in the garden and torches wicker men at Harvest Moon. The music-loving college gardener Peter...
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