Archive for February 18, 2016

Climate is often a matter of inches and a little water

Planners ignore microclimates at their peril: mistakes can mean frozen crops, lower house values and camper vans blown off the highway.

001Microclimates are exactly that: phenomena measured on scales of inches to miles. The wind can be gusting to gale force near a ridgetop while only gentle breezes blow in the valley below. A simple garden wall may enable a plant to thrive where it otherwise would have been hard-pressed to survive. Read more