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Wildflower Seed Packets on Amazon and eBay

Wildflower seed packets sold on Amazon and Ebay are very symptomatic of some of the things going wrong in my world at the moment. There ARE some very good packets...

Which Wildflower Seed Do I Buy?

Where Should I Buy Wildflower Seed? It turns out there are relatively few suppliers of wildflower seed in the UK. There are a lot of more or less good resellers,...

Plantlife

Readers of this blog will probably be familiar with Plantlife, the plant conservation charity. They do significant work around the country managing land and raising awareness of the importance of...

Weed or Wildflower? Which is Which?

I always tell punters one man's weed is another one's wildflower. I'm not sure that's strictly true in most cases. Problematic plants? I know dandelions and plantains can be a...

Wildflower Meadows: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

We sell a fair amount of seed for wildflower meadows. You might say wildflower meadows are a bit of an obsession, in fact. We do everything we can to make...

Farmland - Does It Really Matter and What Shoul...

Much interest in Michael Gove's prognostications on farmland subsidies today. This is a really important issue for environmentalists - perhaps more important than you might think. Oddly, most people in...