{"id":631,"date":"2012-02-09T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2019-08-08T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:02:17","slug":"hardy-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/hardy-palms\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploiting The &#8216;Heat Island&#8217; Effect when creating your garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exploiting the \u201cHeat Island\u201d Effect in our plant choices and creating gardens \u2013 PART 1<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/plant\/musb\/musa-basjoo.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"Banana Plants and Hardy Palm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/banana-palms.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Plants and Hardy Palm to buy at Paramount Plants, London Garden Centre\" width=\"565\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musa Basjoo &#8211; Japanese Banana | Trachycarpus Fortunei &#8211; Chusan Palm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many tens of thousands if not millions of us live in towns and cities which because of the accumulated effects of lighting and heating etc retain a temperature (especially at night) which is several degrees higher than that of the surrounding countryside. This higher temperature can play a huge advantage when it comes to our plants and gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The extreme winters of the last few years resulted in the death of many marginally tender plants which had become accustomed to a run of mild weather. Having said that many survived in heavily built up areas especially when in close proximity to buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably those living in rural areas and exposed areas who have had losses of plants are wary of replacing them. However many of those losses, it has to be said, were due to lack of even minimal protection given to the plants brought about by our complacency due to the previous mild winters. See our blog post on <a title=\"tropical plants\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/protecting-tropical-plants\/\">how to prepare tender plants for the winter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The benefits of the microclimates of towns and cities from a gardening perspective are hugely under-exploited which is partly due to a lack of awareness. Certainly when a striking <a title=\"garden design\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/garden-design-portfolio.html\">new garden <\/a>appears it arouses interest often resulting in a knock on effect. These gardens usually consist of bold architectural plants such as <a title=\"hardy palms\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/hardy-palms.html\">hardy palms<\/a>, <a title=\"tree ferns\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/tree-ferns.html\">tree ferns<\/a> etc and are often of a contemporary nature.<\/p>\n<p>Read our blog on how to\u00a0<a title=\"cordylines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountplants.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/cordylines\/\">help Cordylines recover after a harsh winter<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Plant Suggestions for the \u201cHeat Island\u201d Effect in Part 2 to follow &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploiting the \u201cHeat Island\u201d Effect in our plant choices and creating gardens \u2013 PART 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[32,36,5,8,43],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-design-maintenance","tag-architectural-plants","tag-flowering-shrubs","tag-london-garden-centre","tag-garden-design","tag-garden-maintenance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tender Plants for UK Planting. 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