The few upsides of global warning aren't given much prominence when the subject is under discussion because the downsides are so cataclysmic. However, they do exist and one of them relates to the many magnolias growing in UK gardens. Each year their showy flowers appear in March, and each year along come frosts that turn their white and pink tinged petals to a disfiguring brown. The increasingly mild springs we are experiencing in the UK, brought about by global warming, will mean we are more likely to enjoy their beauty throughout the weeks they are in bloom. I paused on a recent walk to photograph this inviting Magnolia stellata as it reached over a garden wall.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
