The UK will get hotter and drier for plants … except in Manchester

The Paradise Garden at RHS Bridgewater, where trees that are part of the British landscape are being considered for a new arboretum. Photograph: Neil Hepworth/RHS

The climate is changing British gardens everywhere. Well, almost everywhere. The Royal Horticultural Society has modelled how global heating will affect its property until 2075 and discovered that summers will be hotter and drier in all its gardens – except in Manchester.

Greater Manchester’s renown as a rain trap – there is even a website tracking rainfall, called Rainchester – means that the RHS Bridgewater garden in Salford is being earmarked for species that thrive in a cooler, wetter climate.