# New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-11-03T13:05:28+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/03/garden-climate-assessment-tool-drought-gardening
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/new-tool-will-help-gardeners-move-away-from-thirsty-english-classics-t-0d4b16/

Exclusive: Garden Climate Assessment Tool will allow users to predict a plant’s response to the projected climate in a given location “In the 20th century, we could pretty much grow the same things with confidence, we could learn from previous generations,” said Prof Sam Brockington, a curator at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. “But now we’re moving into climate scenarios that we just don’t h

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