'Sheep eating' tropical plant flowers in Hampshire after 10 years
She said: "This is not something that should happen normally."We've had the sunniest April on record... the temperature's up 1.7 degrees and we've actually had 47% less rainfall."We are witnessing climate change first hand in our primary school grounds."
Ms Moreton, who planted the evergreen perennial when she redesigned the school garden as a learning environment, said it was reputedly a danger to wildlife in its native Andean environment."It's actual name is 'sheep catcher'," she explained."It would typically entangle wildlife around it and then hold on to it and unfortunately if they perish it would then give nutrients to the plant."In the UK, several Puya Chilensis specimens have recently flowered many years after being planted, including in public gardens in Devon, Leeds and Surrey.
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