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Wildflowers In Your Garden

Malva moschata Do you want a patch of wildflowers in your garden? The right answer! I think they can look lovely; some are long flowering too, like this mallow in...

Plants For Bees In Late Winter

Climate change means that bees are struggling in late winter. Honeybees and bumblebee queens are out and about in the second half of February as I write, with the temperature...

A Little Knowledge...

I had a great weekend, brushing up my little knowledge. On Saturday I was at the mighty Bumblebee Conservation Trust's (BBCT) members' day in Cardiff, then yesterday had an equally...

How to Choose Your Apple Trees

Choosing which apple trees to buy can look confusing. Don't worry. Have a quick read before you just nip down to B&Q. Size Don't muddle up the size of the...

September in the Garden

Things are beginning to look knackered in the garden in September. You might think it's time to cut back some of those long flowering perennials which have done such good...

House Sparrows

For fellow baby boomers, the demise of house sparrows is an obvious and distressing sign of the crisis in nature around us. In a week when we celebrated World Sparrow...