Hot and bothered
THINK most gardeners realise that our climate is changing, and the statistics back this up. Weather records show that 2019’s average temperature was 1.1°C above the long-term averages recorded between 1961 and 1990. The UK summer of 2018 (June, July and August), was the joint hottest on record since 1884. The 1990s was the warmest decade in Central England since records began in the 1660s.
