As Ernie Wise might have wrote, here are some wild flowers what I seen on my holidays. We visited Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia & Bulgaria. We were longest in Albania & Bulgaria and most of the photos come from the latter, not due to it having more wild flowers than the others but because we were […]
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Now that it’s turned chilly, it’s even more important to give your garden birds food and water. If they don’t eat, they don’t survive the cold nights. And they need water for bathing, to keep their feathers in good condition to get them through the night. So please, think of your garden birds while you’re
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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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