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Magical Meadows

Magical Meadows

What a lovely week I've had. Two days at the Floodplain Meadows Partnership Conference in Oxford based at the wonderful Pitt Rivers Museum, followed by a day at Chelsea with...

Magical Meadows

What a lovely week I've had. Two days at the Floodplain Meadows Partnership Conference in Oxford based at the wonderful Pitt Rivers Museum, followed by a day at Chelsea with...

Spring Blossom

Spring Blossom

Why don't we talk more about blossom as a resource for wildlife? Every one of our fruit trees has thousands and thousands of flowers for pollinating insects to enjoy. It's...

Spring Blossom

Why don't we talk more about blossom as a resource for wildlife? Every one of our fruit trees has thousands and thousands of flowers for pollinating insects to enjoy. It's...

More Hedge Plants Please

More Hedge Plants Please

Ray Jenkins is a man in a hurry, and he needs his pick-up mended. When we visited his new native plant nursery on the Welsh border last week things were winding down after...

More Hedge Plants Please

Ray Jenkins is a man in a hurry, and he needs his pick-up mended. When we visited his new native plant nursery on the Welsh border last week things were winding down after...

More Plants Please

More Plants Please

I watch the wonderful Wild Isles with mixed emotions. I was very lucky to meet David Attenborough back in the noughties when we sold some wildflower seed packets to raise...

More Plants Please

I watch the wonderful Wild Isles with mixed emotions. I was very lucky to meet David Attenborough back in the noughties when we sold some wildflower seed packets to raise...

A Little Hedgelaying

A Little Hedgelaying

Regular readers wlll know how keen I am on hedgelaying. It's one of those bits of rural management much misunderstood by some, particularly nowadays. Like cutting a meadow there are those...

A Little Hedgelaying

Regular readers wlll know how keen I am on hedgelaying. It's one of those bits of rural management much misunderstood by some, particularly nowadays. Like cutting a meadow there are those...

Chestnut Coppice

Chestnut Coppice

Sweet chestnut coppice

Chestnut Coppice

Sweet chestnut coppice