Climate change: certainties and uncertainties, regional effects and extreme events
Kathy Maskell, Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading
Phenology at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for the past 150 years
Clare Morter & Christine Thompson, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems in Ireland
Alison Donnelly, Trinity College Dublin
Phenological change in the UK and further afield
Tim Sparks, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Monk’s Wood
Boom and bust, flood and drought – it’s a hard life being a garden plant
Ross Cameron, Environmental Biology, University of Reading
New creative opportunities for planting on buildings: green roofs and living walls
Nigel Dunnett, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield
Climate change: new ecology and planting opportunities
James Hitchmough, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield
Visit to the National Arboretum at Westonbirt
John Weir, Hugh Angus, Simon Toomer & Richard Jinks, Forestry Commission
A tour of the National Arboretum will give an introduction to Westonbirt and cover some of the main activities. The main focus will be to stimulate discussion on climate-change issues such as analysis of plant collections, potential pests and diseases, historic landscapes, species selection and how we might mitigate the effects of climate change.
Planting for the long-term: climate change and National Trust gardens
Mike Calnan, Gardens & Landscape, National Trust
Tolerant turf: grass species for practical solutions to the changing climate
Jayne Leyland, UK Research & Development Manager, Barenbrug UK Limited
Exotic pests and diseases likely to flourish or be encountered with climate change
Ray Cannon & Helen Moran, Central Science Laboratory
Will our gardens become reserves for species threatened by climate change?
Alastair Culham, University of Reading
Rare and ornamental trees: some candidates for planting
Owen Johnson, Tree Register of the British Isles
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: PHENOLOGY – FUNCTIONAL GROUPS OF FLOWERING PLANTS
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