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911±¬ÁÏ COP26 Garden: Balance

Enjoy this beautiful selection of domestic garden settings designed for a warmer climate 


In the Balance area visitors found a glorious mixture of plants that might be considered tender in today's climate but may thrive in 50 years.

The area was divided into crescent-shaped sectors that, like the other zones, were centred around the Universal Window Box through different domestic garden collections.

The other zones

Decline
Mitigation
Adaptation

This spinning shape was interrupted by a semi-circular lawn at the front, fringed with longer grass and wild flowers that would attract wildlife.

A series of shrubs provided a backdrop to the Balance garden as a whole.

In front of this, a small selection of tender fruit, vegetables and cut flowers provided inspiration for a future garden that includes asters, figs, pomegranates and an orange tree.

A garden of possibilities



Beyond this area, there is a dense sweep of tender perennials and grasses featuring salvias and asters.

A final area featured ferns, including hart's tongue and painted lady ferns to frame the garden as a whole. This type of planting scheme could become more and more familiar as temperatures rise.



At the front of the quarter lay a closely mown lawn, demonstrating the importance of this feature to British gardening. Any danger of creating a monoculture was mitigated by a ring of longer grass interplanted with native wild flowers.

All the plants in the Balance quarter were deliberately selected to suit an average temperature of 2-3C warmer and with significantly more rainfall than we now experience.
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