Originally Posted by
Kilted KT
are you saying that it is actually DRY in the brittish isles? I thought is was miserably rainy almost every day of the year?!?
We certainly had that reputation, KT, until a few years ago. The typical British summers being one wet day after another has been a stereotypical joke for years, but global warming seems to have wrought some changes and the past several summers have been reliably and progressively hot and sunny - our winters unusually dry and milder too. The West and the North of the British Isles still receives a lot more rain than the East and South, but I should imagine that, like us, they are getting less than they used to.
It is being said by horticulturalists that, if these conditions prevail, within 50 years the south of England will be as the Mediterranean is now, and we simply will be unable to grow many of the plants and shrubs we have enjoyed all these years. We'll have Olives and Peaches instead of Apples and Pears!!!
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