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Matilda Bourne

Are We Planting for the Wrong Climate? How UK Designers Are Reimagining Traditional British Gardens for 30°C Summers

Garden design pergola with mediterranean planting and a meandering path.

We’ve finally reached that awkward July garden phase. Roses have gone over, lawns are 50 shades of beige, and deadheading is becoming a religious ritual — that is, if your plants have even survived this scorching summer, at all.

This year England experienced its warmest June on record, clocking in at 3ºC above the average June temp and reaching a whopping 37.7ºC — the UK’s highest June temperature on record. Not that you need reminding, I'm sure.

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