Bee Friendly Flowers in September
September 16, 2024
We're lucky enough to be around the corner from a Piet Oudolf designed garden, which is looking just lovely at the moment. I had a stroll around it...
Wild Service Tree (Torminalis glaberrima)
February 5, 2024
The Wild Service tree (Torminalis glaberrima) - all you need to know.
Brilliant Buckthorn
January 11, 2024
Why we all need some Buckthorn!
The Snowberry
November 24, 2023
Why snowberries suck.
Spring Blossom
May 15, 2023
Why don't we talk more about blossom as a resource for wildlife? Every one of our fruit trees has thousands and thousands of flowers for pollinatin...
A Little Hedgelaying
February 28, 2023
Regular readers wlll know how keen I am on hedgelaying. It's one of those bits of rural management much misunderstood by some, particularly nowaday...
A Nightingale Sang...
May 3, 2022
Nightingales; a lesson for our times.
Hedge Laying and Culture Wars
December 20, 2021
Regular readers of this nonsense will know I'm a big fan of not just hedges, but also hedge laying. The National Hedgelaying Society is one of the ...
To Guard Or Not To Guard
January 29, 2021
We've planted trees for hundreds of years before the arrival of the plastic tree guard. John Evelyn didn't need them, so why do we now? Some suspec...
Vanishing Hedgerows
September 16, 2020
Hedgerows are a critical natural asset and should be managed more carefully.
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