After the deluge . . . HURRICANE KATRINA AND HER AFTERMATH NOEL KINGSBURY

摘要

Gardens, we know, are vulnerable places, Leave them unattended and the grass and weeds grow; abandon them and nature will soon reclaim them. 'Lost gardens' have become a favourite romantic cause of the last few decades, as teams of volunteers and fundraisers set about the work of 'finding' them again. Total destruction, rather than neglect, is something we tend to be less familiar with, We in Britain had the great storm of 1987, when many gardens in the south-east were severely damaged, and some indeed came near to obliteration. But what other disasters can destroy gardens overnight? Who are the horticultural four horsemen of the apocalypse? How have gardens fared in the disasters that have so afflicted the world over the last couple of years?