{"id":14732,"date":"2012-11-07T00:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T07:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:28:00","slug":"whats-what-with-our-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/whats-what-with-our-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s What With Our Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have got some ‘right weather’ again so the garden is on the windy & muddy side. Therefore I have taken time out for a quick drink and think about climate.
\nLast year we were being told that the plight of the bumble bee was in our hands and that they were an endangered species. Blame global warming and loss of habitat we were told.
\nGardeners were planning for another dry summer in the UK and we even started the year with drought restrictions.<\/p>\n

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All ‘ain’t what it is cracked up to be’ and our clay soil was never cracked up to be much especially this year.
\nAs a ‘global warming denier’ I was more than content to whinge on about a poor summer for a change and only regret the low yield on fruit crops.
\nWe have had floods, freeze ups and climate change before and doubtless we will experience more change in the future.<\/p>\n

UK Gardeners Tips Views<\/strong>
\nBees have had a better year and I will continue to support them in my garden and whenever I get an opportunity.
\nMediterranean gardens are for the Mediterranean area and unless I want to fight the natural order of things I will be very careful with any plants from hot dry climes.
\nRain, wind, sun or shine the weather is great – enjoy it when you garden.<\/p>\n

\"Madiera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the UK we started the year with drought restrictions then suffered the heaviest rainfall since Noah was a lad. What goes around comes around and the amount of carbon on earth is still the same as when Adam and Eve grew apples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}