This week I thought we would take a break from vegetables and look instead at the flowering garden. Some of you may remember my ambitious plans earlier in the year to create ….Read more
Category: Wildlife Support
New Perennial Style Planting Plans
Right then. For the last while I have been both adding to our list of flowering perennial plants and working on planting plants and corresponding plant packs. As the year ….Read more
Creating a Perennial Wildlife Garden – Part 1
The vegetable garden is still pretty quiet this week so I thought we would return to ornamental gardening and look at some of the plans for my garden and some ….Read more
The Extraordinary Migration of the Painted Lady Butterfly
The Painted Lady is a very interesting butterfly due to the vast migratory path that it traces and the fact that record numbers have been reported in the UK and ….Read more
Moths – The Unseen Nocturnal Pollinator
I thought we’d do one last ‘Friday Facts’ on unsung pollinator heroes before moving on to another subject next week. Today I am taking a quick look at moths as ….Read more
Another unsung pollinator hero – the Hoverfly!
This Friday I thought we’d continue looking at pollinators as we had such a good response from our first ‘Friday Facts’ on solitary bees. Solitary bees tend to be overlooked ….Read more