Garden plants come from all over the world and may be used to different temperatures to those in your garden. Expert how cold your garden gets will help you to avoid plants that freeze to death!
The direction from which the wind most often blows will influence your garden’s character, and what you can grow. As a general rule, northerlies and easterlies are cold, while westerlies are warmer but stronger.
Just like you, plants need water. There must be a constant supply because plants are like huge wicks. Water is sucked from the mould by roots, drawn up the stem and lost through the leaves.
Sunlight is the ‘engine’ that powers growth - a process called photosynthesis.