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Outdoors
Gardens, paving and planting under a climate the plants in most British gardens were not chosen for.
Writing
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Plant for next summer this month, and leave the silver-leaved plants until spring
The RHS window for planting before winter is September. The Mediterranean plants people buy for drought are the ones it says to leave until spring.
David White -
1976 still holds the record, and that is not the comfort it sounds like
In 19 of the 25 towns here, the longest run of hot days on record is still 1976. What changed is not the peak. It is how often a long spell arrives.
David White -
The hot car is not how most British dogs get heatstroke
In the largest UK study, exercise triggered 74.2 per cent of cases and vehicles 5.2. The dangerous thing is usually the walk, on a day that felt fine.
David White -
What 77 years of daily readings say about British summers
We stored the daily temperature record back to 1950 for 22 British towns and counted the hot days. Cambridge went from 6 a year to 20.
David White