FOR proof that gardeners are nurturing people who are definitely in touch with nature, you need only take a look at the AG letters page. Most readers are all too aware of the decline in our wildlife and wildflowers, too, as climate change impacts on native species.
There are winners and losers. The speckled wood butterfly is doing well because it is producing more generations. However, the wall brown, once common in my old Hook Norton garden in Oxfordshire, is now rarely seen in the heart of England because warm autumns prompted young to hatch in late autumn, when they had no hope of surviving. As a result, colonies are restricted to cooler coastal areas such as Pembrokeshire.
Intense agriculture is another factor. Every inch of land has been used,
