This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Future Proofing Grass?
Sussex's wild Wakehurst garden is 'future proofing' itself against climate change (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/16/sussexs-wakehurst-garden-future-proofs-with-american-prairie-grassland). Wakehurst's 535 acres have been re-seeded with prairie grass and associated plants. The logic behind this is that these North American plants are more resistant to the changed conditions. Hot spells with less reliable rainfall are increasingly likely. The downside will be, however, the loss of the indigenous plants. A naturalistic situation is effectively being replaced by 'alien' flora. There must also be limits to what one can future proof, unless one accepts desert as the new normal?
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