The Gardener's Guide to Weather and Climate : How to Understand the Weather and Make It Work for You

You may be at the whim of a changing climate, but you don’t have to let it ruin your garden. Weather expert Michael Allaby comes to the rescue with practical advice on adapting your garden to create optimum conditions for plants. You’ll learn how weather works, how to predict different conditions, and how to make the best of meteorological highs and lows. And you’ll discover fascinating insights into climate change, cloud formation, jet streams, and much more. “We owe it to our plants to read this book. After all, while we just live with the weather, our plants have to survive it.” —The Washington Post All gardeners are at the whim of Mother Nature, and so are our plants. Whether it's coping with extreme drought or record-breaking snow fall, gardeners—and gardens—across the country are fighting against the elements. Instead of just reacting to the weather, Michael Allaby suggests that gardeners use knowledge about how the weather works to create the best growing conditions for their plants. Allaby brings big-picture atmospheric concepts to life with a comprehensive introduction to how weather works and explanations climate change, weather systems, and microclimates. The Gardener's Guide to Weather and Climate proves that instead of gardening at the mercy of the weather, knowledgeable gardeners can make the weather work for them Gardeners are obsessed by the weather because frost, drought, wind and rain can undo all their work, often overnight. Science writer Michael Allaby offers an understanding of the vagaries of both local weather and the larger impact of climate change and offers us the chance to adapt our gardens to at least minimise the impact of their influence. "This book provides a clear and accessible explanation of how the weather works and how it affects the garden. It takes readers from the macro to the micro, from the effects of global warming on our planet to finding the micro-climates in their own backyards"--Provided by publisher