Flowers arriving a month early in UK as climate heats up
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#5VPD0)
Plants now bloom in mid-April on average, with scientists warning of mismatches with insects and birds
Plants are flowering a month earlier in the UK as the climate heats up, a study has found.
The researchers examined 420,000 recorded dates of first flowering for more than 400 species, dating to 1793. The average date for the first blooms was about 12 May up to 1986, but since then the date has been pushed forward to 16 April.
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