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Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat

Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat

Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - record high temperatures after months...

Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat

Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - record high temperatures after months...

Sabre Wasp

Sabre Wasp

Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearly 8cm long, including a...

Sabre Wasp

Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearly 8cm long, including a...

Unwilding

Unwilding

HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fantastic work and skill to...

Unwilding

HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fantastic work and skill to...

The Top Ten Flowers For Bees

The Top Ten Flowers For Bees

I used to be guilty of blithely writing top ten lists like this. For many, bees tend to be shorthand for pollinators generally, so you might think a list like...

The Top Ten Flowers For Bees

I used to be guilty of blithely writing top ten lists like this. For many, bees tend to be shorthand for pollinators generally, so you might think a list like...

Barn Owls - A Story Of Our Times

Barn Owls - A Story Of Our Times

A rare venture into the world of charismatic megafauna! Experiences of the lovely barn owl.

Barn Owls - A Story Of Our Times

A rare venture into the world of charismatic megafauna! Experiences of the lovely barn owl.

The Wool Carder Bee

The Wool Carder Bee

The Wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, is one of my favourite bees.  To start with, just to clear up any confusion, they're not a bumblebee. They're no relation to nice fluffy Common...

The Wool Carder Bee

The Wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, is one of my favourite bees.  To start with, just to clear up any confusion, they're not a bumblebee. They're no relation to nice fluffy Common...