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  1. UK - Key plants for a #ClimateChange garden

    BBC Gardeners' World Magazine

    Published: Thursday, 24 November 2022 at 11:30 am

    Take a look at our pick of key plants to grow in a changing climate.

    "With temperatures and levels of pollution on the rise, plants can help gardens and gardeners thrive in changing times.

    "This might seem like a daunting prospect, but the good news for gardeners is that there are steps we can take at a local level to help ease the effects of these big issues.

    "While we can use drought-tolerant plants to cope in raised temperatures, the long-term solution lies in reducing the heat. Some plants have been proven to actively improve the #microclimate of a garden and surrounding buildings. For example, plants like #jasmine, #EnglishIvy and #viburnum are able to cool a building by between 7-14ºC. Plants can also trap pollution by absorbing particulate matter. #Conifers have been found to be especially good at this due to their smaller leaf size and shape.

    "On top of this, the more ecologically resilient we can make our gardens with increased planting, the better they will serve us as places to relax, reduce stress and improve our mental well-being."

    Read more:
    gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeGardening #ClimateChangeAdaptation #KeepingCool #DroughtTolerantPlants #GreenerCities

  2. UK - Key plants for a #ClimateChange garden

    BBC Gardeners' World Magazine

    Published: Thursday, 24 November 2022 at 11:30 am

    Take a look at our pick of key plants to grow in a changing climate.

    "With temperatures and levels of pollution on the rise, plants can help gardens and gardeners thrive in changing times.

    "This might seem like a daunting prospect, but the good news for gardeners is that there are steps we can take at a local level to help ease the effects of these big issues.

    "While we can use drought-tolerant plants to cope in raised temperatures, the long-term solution lies in reducing the heat. Some plants have been proven to actively improve the #microclimate of a garden and surrounding buildings. For example, plants like #jasmine, #EnglishIvy and #viburnum are able to cool a building by between 7-14ºC. Plants can also trap pollution by absorbing particulate matter. #Conifers have been found to be especially good at this due to their smaller leaf size and shape.

    "On top of this, the more ecologically resilient we can make our gardens with increased planting, the better they will serve us as places to relax, reduce stress and improve our mental well-being."

    Read more:
    gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeGardening #ClimateChangeAdaptation #KeepingCool #DroughtTolerantPlants #GreenerCities

  3. Boundary Waters wildfires could smolder until snow falls

    Fueled by dry fir and spruce trees, the larger forest fires are too intense for firefighters to extinguish without help from the weather.

    By Dave Orrick and Bob Timmons
    The Minnesota Star Tribune

    “It’s way beyond the ability of firefighting crews to suppress,” said Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Forest Ecology and an expert on the fire ecology of northern Minnesota forests.

    startribune.com/boundary-water

    #Minnesota #conifers #BWCA #wildfires

  4. Boundary Waters wildfires could smolder until snow falls

    Fueled by dry fir and spruce trees, the larger forest fires are too intense for firefighters to extinguish without help from the weather.

    By Dave Orrick and Bob Timmons
    The Minnesota Star Tribune

    “It’s way beyond the ability of firefighting crews to suppress,” said Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Forest Ecology and an expert on the fire ecology of northern Minnesota forests.

    startribune.com/boundary-water

    #Minnesota #conifers #BWCA #wildfires

  5. Boundary Waters wildfires could smolder until snow falls

    Fueled by dry fir and spruce trees, the larger forest fires are too intense for firefighters to extinguish without help from the weather.

    By Dave Orrick and Bob Timmons
    The Minnesota Star Tribune

    “It’s way beyond the ability of firefighting crews to suppress,” said Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Forest Ecology and an expert on the fire ecology of northern Minnesota forests.

    startribune.com/boundary-water

    #Minnesota #conifers #BWCA #wildfires

  6. Boundary Waters wildfires could smolder until snow falls

    Fueled by dry fir and spruce trees, the larger forest fires are too intense for firefighters to extinguish without help from the weather.

    By Dave Orrick and Bob Timmons
    The Minnesota Star Tribune

    “It’s way beyond the ability of firefighting crews to suppress,” said Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Forest Ecology and an expert on the fire ecology of northern Minnesota forests.

    startribune.com/boundary-water

  7. Boundary Waters wildfires could smolder until snow falls

    Fueled by dry fir and spruce trees, the larger forest fires are too intense for firefighters to extinguish without help from the weather.

    By Dave Orrick and Bob Timmons
    The Minnesota Star Tribune

    “It’s way beyond the ability of firefighting crews to suppress,” said Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Forest Ecology and an expert on the fire ecology of northern Minnesota forests.

    startribune.com/boundary-water

    #Minnesota #conifers #BWCA #wildfires

  8. What appear to be Scots or Scotch pine cones. I don't know that I've seen them during this transition before.

    Kinda looks like corn on the cob on the cone.

    #conifers #trees #pine #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #AltText

  9. What appear to be Scots or Scotch pine cones. I don't know that I've seen them during this transition before.

    Kinda looks like corn on the cob on the cone.

    #conifers #trees #pine #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #AltText

  10. #Conifers (/ˈkɒnɪfər/) are a group of vascular plants and a subset of gymnosperms. They are primarily perennial, woody trees and shrubs, mostly evergreen with a regular branching pattern, reproducing with male and female cones

  11. Glencoe Sunset.

    I walked up the hill a little bit too catch the last of the sunset before the midges caught me.

    #Glencoe #Conifers #RicohGRiiiX #Sunset

  12. @lilithsaintcrow Cones. In a few weeks they’ll point down, slowly turn brown, and release many very small seeds from which might conifers might grow.

    #trees #conifers

  13. @lilithsaintcrow Cones. In a few weeks they’ll point down, slowly turn brown, and release many very small seeds from which might conifers might grow.

    #trees #conifers

  14. This #garden is situated in the South of #France and shows what can be done with #conifers on a large scale.

    Creative #Gardens, 1986

  15. This #garden is situated in the South of #France and shows what can be done with #conifers on a large scale.

    Creative #Gardens, 1986

  16. California Torreya (Torreya californica) is a rare conifer found only in California, mostly in the shady canyons and steep slopes of the Coast Ranges and the western Sierra Nevada. Though it once had a wider prehistoric range, today it's a relict species with a patchy, localized distribution.

    #conifers #wildlife #nature #california #californiaendemicplants

  17. California Torreya (Torreya californica) is a rare conifer found only in California, mostly in the shady canyons and steep slopes of the Coast Ranges and the western Sierra Nevada. Though it once had a wider prehistoric range, today it's a relict species with a patchy, localized distribution.

    #conifers #wildlife #nature #california #californiaendemicplants

  18. 28/05/2025 - Evening walk round the hill. We took our tea and went to our quiet spot for a sit. A little bit of rain but nothing too bad. I got looking at the trees round us as I munched away. Larch and birch looking nice and the birds were in full song this evening. We were sitting in the heather underneath a lodgepole pine. I'd never really noticed how many of these there are here, easy to mistake for scots pine I think at first glance. Lovely trees.

    #EveningWalk #Trees #Conifers

  19. 28/05/2025 - Evening walk round the hill. We took our tea and went to our quiet spot for a sit. A little bit of rain but nothing too bad. I got looking at the trees round us as I munched away. Larch and birch looking nice and the birds were in full song this evening. We were sitting in the heather underneath a lodgepole pine. I'd never really noticed how many of these there are here, easy to mistake for scots pine I think at first glance. Lovely trees.

    #EveningWalk #Trees #Conifers

  20. Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
    phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle

    "#conifers were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-#Permian catastrophe. But the recovery of #forests was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby #plants resembling modern #clubmosses. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"

  21. Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
    phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle

    "#conifers were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-#Permian catastrophe. But the recovery of #forests was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby #plants resembling modern #clubmosses. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"

  22. Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
    phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle

    "#conifers were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-#Permian catastrophe. But the recovery of #forests was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby #plants resembling modern #clubmosses. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"

  23. Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
    phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle

    "#conifers were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-#Permian catastrophe. But the recovery of #forests was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby #plants resembling modern #clubmosses. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"

  24. Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
    phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle

    "#conifers were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-#Permian catastrophe. But the recovery of #forests was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby #plants resembling modern #clubmosses. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"