Climate Change and Biodiversity

"This is a very serious scientific book. There is a little theme in this set of books that I have chosen. They are all books that a serious gardener would want on his or her bookshelves. Some are useful in terms of reference books, or they are books that would make a gardener well informed. This is a very fine book if you are interested in the whole subject of climate change. In here there are some chapters which relate to the timing of when plants do things. For example, when can you expect your snowdrops to flower? There has been a lot of scientific study now about climate change and the change in timing for plants flowering. Your lilacs will probably flower between one and three weeks earlier than they ever have before. The studies have been done over 10-year periods. It is pretty interesting for gardeners to know that an old garden book that tells you your lilacs will flower around Memorial Day, which is at the end of May, is now out of date. I think it may, especially for something like a seaside garden. So this is a scientific book in which gardeners don’t need to read every article, but some of the articles relate very directly to the concerns of serious people who are also gardeners."