Thanks to Joanna for sending in her result – adding a wren to our total. The 2018 Big Garden Birdwatch took place on the 27-29 January, when the RSPB asked everyone to spend an hour watching their garden (or allotment or local park) and note which birds they saw. This has been happening since […]
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Do you know your damsels from your dragons? If you do, here’s an opportunity to put your expertise to the tet. If you don’t, it’s the perfect opportunity to learn! The British Dragonfly Society are running the Dragonfly Challenge from 15th – 23rd July. It’s a citizen science project with a serious aim: to find
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1 July is National Meadows Day. We’ve lost a staggering 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s, mostly lost to intensive agriculture. As well as being beautiful in their own right, species-rich meadows and grasslands support a wealth of plants and wildlife. The area of meadows in the UK has become so depleted, that
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Only 4 weeks till the Summer Show and one class that even those who hate gardening can enter is class 59 – a limerick or haiku themed “Spring”. Haiku is a short form of Japanese poetry – an “epigrammatic Japanese verse form in 17 syllables”, according to my dictionary. The 17 syllables are usually divided into 3
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In many ways, dandelions are the perfect plant: bright yellow flowers for much of the year, if you deadhead regularly, popular with pollinators and seed-eating birds so good for wildlife, very attractive seedheads that are fun for children to play with, striking evergreen foliage you can even eat them. And yet … it’s hard to
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