• Countdown to the Big Garden Birdwatch
    It's over to Nature's Home Managing Editor Anna Scrivenger, to get you in the mood for the extravaganza that is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch . As you have hopefully seen in your latest magazine, it starts...
  • Garden festival countdown: everyone is buzzing
    My name is Hannah Grist, and I am a Lifelong Learning Officer based at the South and West Scotland Regional Office in Glasgow. It is the beginning of September, which means that it is under a week...
  • Countdown - 2, ours?
    The UK Overseas Territories are a funny collection of places, mostly islands, which speak volumes about the UK's colonial past. We will go to war to protect their sovereignty but will we protect their...
  • Countdown - 1, guess what?
    The most common subject on this blog has been farming and the decline of farmland birds (and there are lots of extracts in the book of the blog ). Be in no doubt - many farmland birds have declined...
  • Countdown - 7, peat
    In maybe 10 years time, the use of peat in gardens should become as frowned upon as blowing cigarette smoke into the faces of children. It will become mainstream that the use of the precious natural resources...