England’s climate is changing and our planting must change with it | Letter
We are trying to keep a pre‑industrial flora alive in a post‑industrial climate, writes Richard Eltringham Your report (Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought, 29 July) makes me think that perhaps it’s time to admit what horticulturists have whispered for years: the native‑plants‑only doctrine has had its day. We can keep insisting that every garden, park and verge must resemble a 1790s botanical inventory, or we can face the obvious – the climate those plants evolved for no…
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