Kew is hotter by about 3 levels Celsius than it was within the Nineteen Eighties, placing much-loved British natives such because the English oak (Quercus robur) in danger, mentioned Kevin Martin, head of tree collections on the gardens and a former tree surgeon.
A drought in 2022, when temperatures across the British capital reached a document 40 levels Celsius, killed 400 of Kew’s bushes, spurring the necessity to consider introducing extra resilient species, mentioned Martin, who will journey to Georgia in September to gather seeds to plant at Kew.
“It will be vitally vital, not just for our era however for the subsequent era,” he mentioned, standing beside a 124-year-old weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Pendula’) in decline.