The Native Butterfly Garden at Hampton Court is a meshed enclosure containing many of our native but...
12th July 2013 • Read More »As we pootled around the Botanic Garden in Nigel Taylor’s buggy admiring our surroundings we spott...
18th October 2014 • Read More »A scheme in Scotland has come up with a roundabout way to grow flowers to help boost the bees. A st...
21st March 2014 • Read More »The Native Butterfly Garden at Hampton Court is a meshed enclosure containing many of our native but...
12th July 2013 • Read More »Much as I would love to give a hedgehog a home in my garden, our area is inundated with badgers wh...
22nd April 2013 • Read More »With the annual ‘National Nest Box Week’ running from 14-21 February this is the perfect time ...
11th February 2013 • Read More »There are few advantages to being stuck indoors with a damaged leg, but I do have a great view of t...
26th September 2012 • Read More »Whilst we're on a nature theme here's a photo taken on the Pelion Peninsular, Greece. At first I th...
18th September 2012 • Read More »I was lucky enough to spot this butterfly in the garden yesterday. It was hard at work gathering n...
15th September 2012 • Read More »The butterflies were out in force at the weekend with the weather being favourable. They were part...
10th September 2012 • Read More »It would appear that the Post Office hasn’t got the message that bees are a good thing and that k...
20th August 2012 • Read More »Following the recent activity on our facebook page some of our readers have submitted a few wild...
26th July 2012 • Read More »I've sown a mini meadow under the apple and apricot trees using the Empathy mini meadow with benefi...
27th March 2012 • Read More »I’ve learned to love the large fatsia that grows against the garden wall. When I moved here it...
8th December 2011 • Read More »Not the prettiest in my view but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We had a visit yesterday f...
21st June 2011 • Read More »Despite the dire weather earlier in the winter it seems that there were places of shelter where cr...
25th February 2011 • Read More »Evidence is mounting that the cause of the decline in bees in associated with the use of neoniciti...
11th February 2011 • Read More »Natural England wants us to remember that ivy is one of the best wildlife-friendly plants - so don...
6th November 2010 • Read More »I don’t know whether it is a seasonal thing, but the small garden birds seem to be remarkably re...
14th October 2010 • Read More »We are big into butterflies and moths at the moment. Not that we haven’t always loved them (with...
20th September 2010 • Read More »The Rain Garden at the London Wetland Centre was officially opened on Wednesday by Alan Titchmarsh. ...
17th September 2010 • Read More »While it is still the silly season in the newspapers, there is nothing silly about the story appea...
31st August 2010 • Read More »In yesterday’s Independent Stanley Johnson (father of blonde bombshell Boris) wrote a fine featu...
25th August 2010 • Read More »
