• For the love of a little green caterpillar
    The bedrock of wildlife-friendly gardening is plants. They fuel the foodchains that ultimately lead to our towns and villages being full of birds, bats, butterflies, bees, and indeed many creatures that...
  • Don't they grow up fast...!
    The activity we'd love everyone to think of doing in their gardens this winter is to plant a tree. It's one of the best things anyone can ever do for nature. Now I know that some of you will have as...
  • Fancy growing some wildflowers?
    How many times in life do you get something for free? Sometimes it’s something you don’t want, like flu or woodworm. But here’s something for free that you’ll probably welcome – wildflower...
  • Growing in an old dung heap...
    These are growing like triffids now, and even spreading like a carpet over the pathways. There are some sort of eggs under the leaves that I hope will provide catepillars for the birds. The one in...
  • Feeling the urge to grow
    Temptation is a cruel mistress. There I was this week, minding my own business, when a seed catalogue came plopping onto my doormat. It looked up at me with puppy-dog eyes saying, 'Open me, open me -...