Climate Gardens and Homes Survey

We are keen to connect with gardeners and home owners who are personally experiencing climate change outside their own back doors as extreme weather events and shifting seasons affect their beloved gardens.

We are very interested to hear how these climate experiences make you feel about a range of issues.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences, thoughts and feelings about climate change gardening.

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* 1. Please provide your age to help evaluate responses

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* 2. Which country do you live in?

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* 3. Have you noticed extreme changes to your local weather patterns where you garden and over how many years?

last year

last 2 years

last 3 years

last 5 years

last 10 years

Last 20 years

Not noticed any changes to weather patterns

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* 4. How is the experience of climate change in your garden affecting your plants?

Frequent heavy rainfall and flooding causing damage to your plants and sometimes your house

Longer periods of drought affecting plant growth plus how you use store and water in your garden

Reduced winter frosts affecting some fruit and plant germination

Shifting seasons means that you plant seeds at different times

Milder but wetter springs means that your plants often get a later growth start

Longer growing season in Autumn means that you often have more flowers and veg produce late into the year.

Noticing a definite impact on wildlife and insects such as bees and other pollinators

Not noticing any climate changes that are affecting my plants and garden

Other (please specify)

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* 5. How does gardening in a changing climate make you feel personally?

Confused and frustrated about constant climate changes and plant challenges in my garden

Always looking for new advice, insights and information to support gardening in a changing climate

Keen to share personal climate experiences with other gardeners and discuss what is happening

Concerned that my garden and plants are vulnerable and thinking about how I can prepare them for an increase of climate changes in the future.

Not particularly concerned or worried about the effects of climate change in my garden

Not noticed any challenges and do not think shifting weather patterns are anything to do with climate change

Please share any other thoughts or emotions that you experience as a result of gardening in a changing climate.

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* 6. How easy do you find it to explore steps to living a sustainable or low carbon life?

Sustainability is key to how I garden and I always look for low carbon options to care for my plants

Sustainability is key to how I live in my home but I do not think about this for my garden

Putting sustainability as my first consumer choice is always on my to do list but I just do not have the time to explore my options

I have the funds and motivation to make sustainable life choices but need more guidance on the best ideas that will make this transition easy and rewarding

I have the funds to make sustainable life choices but not the motivation

I have the motivation to make sustainable life choices but not the funds

I have the funds to make sustainable life choices but I am not interested in making any personal low carbon changes as I do not believe it will make any difference to climate change

I would definitely make more sustainable life choices if I felt they would help reduce the future impact of climate change on my children and grand children

I am not bothered about the future impact of climate change on my children and grand children

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Do changing weather extremes in your garden make you think more about climate change and its impacts on your life ?

I have always been aware of climate change but, experiencing more weather extremes in my garden, increases my motivation to become more sustainable and think more about the future effects

I already lead a very sustainable life

I had NOT thought about the impacts of climate change on my future life until I personally experienced extreme weather events in my garden

I experience climate change in my garden but it does not inspire me to lead a more sustainable life

I experience climate change in my garden but it does not inspire me to think about the future more

I am increasingly concerned about the future that my children and grand children will face as a result of climate change in my garden

I do not consider a connection with climate change in my garden as anything to do with the future that my children and grand children will face

Other

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* 8. What steps might you consider to become more sustainable in your garden and in the home?

Buying peat free compost

Buying only UK grown plants and seeds

Installing water buts and water harvesting systems

Switching to renewable energy in my home

Installing air source or ground source heat pump

Buying an electric car

Flying less for holidays

Travelling more by train and boat to Europe

Sourcing sustainably made or second hand furniture

Buying locally or sustainably sourced food

Recyling clothes and buying vintage or second hand items

I am not interested in making any sustainable, low carbon life choices

Other (please specify)

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* 9. Would you find it useful to share your personal climate gardening experiences with other gardeners via an online platform where you would also receive advice and inspiration on how to easily make the shift to sustainable living?

I would enjoy sharing gardening in a changing climate experiences with other gardeners

I would not enjoy sharing gardening in a changing climate experiences with other gardeners

I would like to discover more about simple sustainable life choices that I can make and receive discount offers and other incentives to achieve this

I would like to discover more about simple sustainable life choices that I can make but DO NOT want to be provided with discount offers or incentives to do so

I am not interested in sustainable life choices at all

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* 10. Growing a garden is to believe in tomorrow and inspires planning for the future. What type of legacy would you like to leave your children and grand children?

I desperately want them to think that I understood the climate challenges they will face in the future and that I did my best to make my life as sustainable as possible

I have not thought about the legacy I might leave my family but, experiencing climate change in my garden is definitely a prompt to reflect and act on how I might leave a sustainable legacy

I do not think experiencing climate change in my garden has anything to do with the sustainable legacy that I might leave my family

I am not interested in thinking about the sustainable legacy that I might leave my children

I do not want to leave my children any legacy as it is not important to me

Other (please specify)