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Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

Milder, wetter winters as a result of climate change are creating perfect conditions for pathogens and pests to spread, the National Trust warns.

The National Trust is branching out by experimenting with sustainable methods of shielding saplings such as crates made from diseased trees, protecting them with shrubs.

The charity is trialling more natural options to plastic as it gets its huge tree planting and woodland creation drive under way.

Francis Bacon in his studio at 7 Reece Mews, London. By Lauren Byrne, Contributor “I live, you might say, in gilded squalor,” Dublin-born painter Francis Bacon once remarked, explaining his attachment to 7 Reece Mews, the spartan twelve-by-eight-foot London flat that was both his home and studio for the last 30 years of his life. For Bacon, the drab, confining space, accessed by a ship’s ladder, was more than just a place to hang his hat. With its paint-spattered walls, broken furniture...