In an English Country Garden: Britain's National Trust on What Gardens Will Look Like With 4 Degrees of Global Warming

From the Daily Mail:
National Trust campaign highlights how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain

The apple orchards have been replaced with orange groves, the turf covered over with gravel and the summer borders replanted with cacti.
They may look like scenes from a Portugese holiday, but these images could be the future of the traditional English garden, plant experts claimed yesterday.

The striking images are part of a National Trust campaign to highlight how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain in the next few decades.

This first painting in a sequence by artist Rob Collins shows a typical British garden now

A 2C rise  - which some climate scientists say is inevitable by the end of the century - would see the South East of England experiencing conditions similar to south west France, while a 4C rise would expose gardens to conditions seen in south-west Portugal, the Trust said....MORE

Lawns will vanish - and be replaced by gravel - if we head towards temperature rises of 4C, while water features will become a thing of the past....