Blog

Beavers and Back Gardens

Beavers and Back Gardens

Small is beautiful.

Beavers and Back Gardens

Small is beautiful.

More Plants Please

More Plants Please

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 wildflower seed packets to raise...

More Plants Please

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 wildflower seed packets to raise...

Verging on the Impossible

Verging on the Impossible

Just up the lane we have a really nice verge, which is a kind of mini-meadow. We're acknowledging the value of this kind of area for wildflowers nationally*. This one...

Verging on the Impossible

Just up the lane we have a really nice verge, which is a kind of mini-meadow. We're acknowledging the value of this kind of area for wildflowers nationally*. This one...

Unwilding

Unwilding

HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fantastic work and skill to...

Unwilding

HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fantastic work and skill to...

A Nightingale Sang...

A Nightingale Sang...

Nightingales; a lesson for our times.

A Nightingale Sang...

Nightingales; a lesson for our times.

Environmental Land Management Schemes: Sunlit Uplands?

Farming in the Brave New World

A Revolution in UK Farming? Sadly the Oxford Farming Conference this year was virtual, which was a great shame. Not least because I was looking forward to the floor's reaction...

Farming in the Brave New World

A Revolution in UK Farming? Sadly the Oxford Farming Conference this year was virtual, which was a great shame. Not least because I was looking forward to the floor's reaction...