Nigel Taylor, curator of the botanical gardens most famous in the world, said it clearly: "The winter no longer exists. Apart from a week riding, Christmas in the last twelve months has never been felt.
And last year was even more extraordinary: Spring has arrived in January, summer in April, the autumn was warm and sunny. " And the first to adapt, while men are still there and groped to understand, was the nature.
Sandra Bell is the department responsible for a brand new one on the globe! dimate chan-ging. The guided tour of the gardens is amazing here, in front of al-l'Orangerie, what remains of snowdrops that have given their best in late January, the big purple roses have leaflets from a cool brown, the magnolia has instead the buds were swollen and hairy, the hawthorn, you have to go look behind Kew Palace, is now a white cloud, and then the wild plum and even the daffodils, which guides promise to April, are already all in bloom. Bell says: "Those who we are subtle changes in the plants become apparent. To be changed are particularly the flowering of the first half of the year, especially the bulbs. The time for species such as snowdrops, the crocuses, the daffodils have dramatically accelerated. "
Those are not just words. Built in 1631, became one of the royal residences from 1718, the estate at Kew has been transformed in the nineteenth century botanical park. Since then, there have been trained generations of scholars who cultivate and analyze all kinds of plants.
species, according to the Royal Horticultural Society, and those that thrive in London, however, will have difficulty in considering the date of flowering.
every year for fifty years, wrote in a register, next to the names of a hundred plants, the day when the first flower has blossomed. That archive has been computerized since 2000 and scroll reserves interesting findings. Let it say: fifty years ago the first flower has yellow petals with the little head off to Kew on March 9, in the sixties on the register and note the date of March 3, in the seventies, February 13, in Eighties 12; in the nineties again one day in advance, 111; flowering in 2000 was brought forward to 27 January and the record was that of 2007, when the first daffodil opened Jan. 1. E is not alone: \u200b\u200banemones have earned 19 days, the crocuses and snowdrops 11.
The calendar of events at Kew came out distorted. Michael Williams, the heart-ordinator, is bleak: "In the brochure we can no longer write the dates. To keep up with blooms in recent years we have had to repeatedly move the start of our spring festival. "
need to change the names of the events, what was the bluebellday in May, has been renamed Blubelle wonder, because in May the bluebells are already faded. The hawthorn in May, which was so called because it blooms in May, has put the first leaves in early January, with more than two months in advance. The organization of work, here, has been turned upside down: from soil preparation all'innaffiatura.
