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The Habitat Aid blog is set in Somerset. The blog tries to introduce some of the issues surrounding our natural environment as understood by a non ecologist. You’ll also find some practical “how to” guides. It’s written by Nick Mann, who runs Habitat Aid. Nick is an increasingly curmudgeonly bald middle-aged bloke of familiar type.

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A Sense Of Place
February 16, 2024
Understanding the places we live.
- Digressions
- hedges
- Landscape
- Somerset
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Brilliant Buckthorn
January 11, 2024
Why we all need some Buckthorn!
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The Snowberry
November 24, 2023
Why snowberries suck.
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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...
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More Hedge Plants Please
March 30, 2023
Ray Jenkins is a man in a hurry, and he needs his pick-up mended. When we visited his new native plant nursery on the Welsh border last week things...
- Bare root plants
- hedges
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More Plants Please
March 14, 2023
I watch the wonderful Wild Isles with mixed emotions. I was very lucky to meet David Attenborough back in the noughties when we sold some wildflowe...
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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...
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Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat
July 17, 2022
Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - reco...
- Bare root plants
- bees
- biodiversity
- Climate change
- Drought
- flooding
- gardens
- Green roof
- hawthorn
- Heatwave
- hedges
- meadows
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Unwilding
May 28, 2022
HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fant...
- biodiversity
- fruit trees
- gardens
- hedges
- Hookgate Cottage
- meadows
- orchards
- ponds
- Rewilding
- wildflowers
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A Nightingale Sang...
May 3, 2022
Nightingales; a lesson for our times.
- birds
- farming
- hedgerow
- hedges
- Rewilding
- trees and woodland
- wildflowers
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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 ...
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A Little Knowledge...
August 11, 2021
We need more experts.
- biodiversity
- fruit trees
- Habitat Aid Ltd.
- hedges
- meadows
- nature
- orchards
- Rewilding
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