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>From Reuters Science News:

Tropical Future for UK Gardeners as Climate Changes
Sat Nov 9, 8:45 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Green-fingered Britons could soon be growing bananas and
avocados instead of lupins and rhododendrons as a result of climate change,
according to leading horticulturists.

Long-term forecasts on climate change suggest British gardeners could face
Mediterranean weather with hotter summers, droughts and warm, wet winters with
the risk of flooding, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

Lush lawns, often the pride of suburban gardens, will also come under threat,
according to a new report to be published this week from the Royal Horticultural
Society (RHS) and the National Trust.

The report's author, Richard Bisgrove from Reading University, said the climate
changes over the next 80 years could threaten some native plants, but would also
give fresh opportunities to gardeners.

"Southern England will become like Bordeaux...in domestic gardens we will see
more exotic plants -- things like palms, olives and peaches."

The report is based on trends set out in the government's UK Climate Impacts
Programme.

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Bracey
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