New Year Plant Hunt 2023 | NATURAL SURROUNDINGS

New Year Plant Hunt 2023: Monday 2nd January

We enjoyed a pleasant stroll around the gardens and then down to Glandford on a glorious winter’s day in lovely mild weather. The very hard frosts – down to minus 8 degrees celcius – before Christmas had, however, put paid to many of the late-flowering species that we would normally see. Nevertheless we enjoyed 30 species in bloom, but it was a salutory reminder of what ‘real’ winter weather can do, and an indication of the effects of global warming when compared to recent winters when we have often accumulated a list of twice as many species