The apple orchards have been replaced
with orange groves, the turf covered over with gravel and the summer
borders replanted with cacti.
They
may look like scenes from a Portugese holiday, but these images could
be the future of the traditional English garden, plant experts claimed
yesterday.
The striking
images are part of a National Trust campaign to highlight how gardens
will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain in
the next few decades.
This first painting in a sequence by artist Rob Collins shows a typical British garden now
A 2C rise - which some climate
scientists say is inevitable by the end of the century - would see the
South East of England experiencing conditions similar to south west
France, while a 4C rise would expose gardens to conditions seen in
south-west Portugal, the Trust said....MORE