Comments on: Global warming and cultivation of the grape vine in England https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2425 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:31:54 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2425 The grapes I saw (in the garden of Culross Palace) were but 24 miles from Adam Smith’s hometown (Kirkaldy) and I am confident the great man would have been delighted to revise his opinions in the warmth of global warming. But I am not so sure. The Fife Coast (known as the fringe of gold on a beggar’s mantle) may become a new Côte d’Azur but an advantage? – those who love quietness may have to move to Caithness.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2424 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:17:25 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2424 Adam Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ had a little to say about the cultivation of vines in Scotland:

“By the means of glasses, hotbeds and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and a very good wine too can be made from them at about thirty times the expense for which an at least equally good [wine] can be bought from foreign countries. Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgandy in Scotland?”

He goes on to say:

“…whether the advantages one country has over another, be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter, rather to buy of the former than make.”

I suppose this means that Scotland is gaining the advantage in global warming?

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2423 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:24:55 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2423 I saw both vines and mulberries growing near Edinburgh this summer. But their fruits needed some global warming to ripen. Scotland’s North Sea Coast could become the new Costa Brava and the present Costa Brava could become the new Skeleton Coast!

]]> By: christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2422 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:48:13 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2422 I wonder whether there will be a stable temperature period of warmth in Edinburgh for you to enjoy your vines. Or whether the temperature will continue to climb making enjoyment of the outdoors not so pleasant even in Edinburgh?

Knowing the answer to this question will ensure the best investment decision in viticulture.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2421 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:56:16 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2421 I am thinking of planting a vine, out of doors and near Edinburgh, to be smugly ready for global warming.

]]> By: Lara Hurley https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2420 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:40:21 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2420 We used to have a beautiful vine in Edinburgh (in a conservatory) and I think that they will become more popular again. The leaves for cookery and the grapes for vinegar (sorry, wine) as well as their beautiful autumn colour are all superb features.
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]]> By: Thomas Mickey https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england/#comment-2419 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:05:51 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5071#comment-2419 Vines in America were much more popular as decorative plants for the home landscape in the 19th century than today. The Cornell horticulturalist Bailey in his Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture (1901) first says they are “excellent ornamental plants when it is desired to cover arbors, porches, or trees.” Then a few paragraphs later writes that the popular interest in them is however primarily pomological. So the wine industry of California and New York, and now, many other states around the country took off.

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