If you were alive 144 million years ago, you wouldn’t need to worry about providing winter food for wild birds because you would have been on the menu yourself. It ….Read more
Tag: wildlife garden
Stuff for gardeners to do in winter.
Firstly, my apologies for my absence over the last couple of weeks. We have been trying to get our new website finished and it is taking forever. I am confident ….Read more
Planting perennial flowers in Autumn
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
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
2020 Quickcrop Garden Plan
Like you, I am itching to get outside and can’t wait for the season to get started. This year I will be spending more time in the garden as my ….Read more
The Knepp Castle Re-Wilding Project
I spent most of last weekend loafing around Kent and Sussex as I was keen to visit a few gardens while the season still has some life left in it. ….Read more
Top Pollinator Plants – Phacelia tanactetifolia
Green Manures Green manures are ‘crops’ which are sown to cover bare soil and do a number of jobs depending on the species like protecting soil, storing nitrogen or mining ….Read more
The Fabulous Solitary Bee
I don’t know whether you know this already but of the 267 species of bee in the U.K. and Ireland, 90% of them are solitary bees. Solitary bees don’t produce ….Read more