If you thought it was hot outside on Tuesday, spare a thought for Karen Wareing.
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As acting leading hand at the Wollongong Botanic Garden, she helps look after plants inside the Sir Joseph Banks Glasshouse.
At 2pm, outside temperatures hovered around 30 degrees, but conditions inside the glasshouse had earlier been closer to 50 degrees.
The plants – which hail from the tropics, deserts and temperate regions – thrive in those conditions.
Ms Wareing doesn’t mind them either.
“I’m pretty lucky, I prefer the heat to working in the cold,” she said.
“The gardens’ cactus plants, in both the mound and the glasshouse, just love this weather.”
Ms Wareing said on hot days things were done “a little differently” around the garden.
“We do the hard, heavier work early on in the day,” she said. Tuesday’s temperatures peaked early, reaching 30 degrees at Bellambi Point at 9.18am and 35.2 degrees inland at noon.
