Gardeners must adjust their practices to adapt to the increasing erratic climate due to climate change, which leads to more extreme weather events like heat waves and droughts. Experts like Kim Stoddart emphasize the importance of creating a climate-resilient garden that can survive harsh conditions and recover from adverse weather. This involves selecting resilient plants, particularly those native to warmer climates, and adjusting gardening practices to mitigate the impacts of climate change on plant health and garden sustainability.
"It's no longer gardening or seasons as usual with our changing, more erratic climate," notes Kim Stoddart, highlighting the urgency for adapting gardening practices.
"It takes a resilient plant to survive all that nature throws at it, and in a climate-changed world, it's not just the long-term rise in temperatures but also the extreme weather events that are so disruptive for plants," they write.
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