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Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat
Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - record high temperatures after months...
Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat
Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - record high temperatures after months...
Sabre Wasp
Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearly 8cm long, including a...
Sabre Wasp
Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearly 8cm long, including a...
The Top Ten Flowers For Bees
I used to be guilty of blithely writing top ten lists like this. For many, bees tend to be shorthand for pollinators generally, so you might think a list like...
The Top Ten Flowers For Bees
I used to be guilty of blithely writing top ten lists like this. For many, bees tend to be shorthand for pollinators generally, so you might think a list like...
Green Roof Update
There's a good reason we don't have stairs up to our green roof. It's one of my happy places - if I didn't have to drag my ladder out of...
Green Roof Update
There's a good reason we don't have stairs up to our green roof. It's one of my happy places - if I didn't have to drag my ladder out of...
The Wool Carder Bee
The Wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, is one of my favourite bees. To start with, just to clear up any confusion, they're not a bumblebee. They're no relation to nice fluffy Common...
The Wool Carder Bee
The Wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, is one of my favourite bees. To start with, just to clear up any confusion, they're not a bumblebee. They're no relation to nice fluffy Common...
Blossom, Blossom, And More Blossom!
You can have blossom in your garden from January to May. Here's why you want it and how you can have it!
Blossom, Blossom, And More Blossom!
You can have blossom in your garden from January to May. Here's why you want it and how you can have it!