https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/wordless-wednesday-winter-walks/
Another month has passed and at home our visiting garden wildlife has brought uplifting rays of sunshine in an otherwise bitterly cold and often dreary January. Pheasants visit each winter, occa...
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/wildlife-wednesday-at-home-and-abroad/
Hello! Much has happened over the last 6 months. We have been on the house hunting roller coaster, drawing ever increasing circles on a map to find a new garden and a place we can call home. Leav...
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/wildlife-wednesday-looking-for-a-new-home/
Almost wordless! The Wildlife Trusts #30 Days Wild challenge each June encourages folk to make room for nature in our lives and do something wild each day, we did not climb mountains but this f...
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/wordless-wednesday-wildlife-trusts-30-days-wild/
Inspired by Tammy’s Casa Mariposa blog, I have been trying for some time to compile a list of UK Garden Centres and Nurseries which sell plants without neonics – systemic insecticide use. I a...
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/wildlife-wednesday-a-perfect-storm/
Amongst the madness, beauty and razzmatazz of Chelsea this year, there was a garden with a powerful message. The Modern Slavery Garden, designed by Juliet Sargeant, the first female black designe...
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/chelsea-the-modern-slavery-garden/
Wood Ants produce formic acid, which can be sprayed at prey, predators and humans too, long trousers, cycle clips and a hat are needed to get up close. Birds can encourage Wood Ants to spray the ...
The Mother Duck who laid her eggs, under the elderly sage bush in our neighbours garden, went on to hatch 13 ducklings, one sadly died on the first day, 4 more died during April, most likely beca...
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/wildlife-wednesday-the-ducklings-brief-visit/
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ashridge-estate/trails/three-in-one-bluebell-walk-at-ashridge http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ashridge-estate/features/protecting-the-bluebells-at-ashridge http:/...
Native Bluebell – Hyacinthoides non-scripta Native Bluebell – Hyacinthoides non-scripta – nectar rich and visited by Bees, Butterflies and Hoverflies. Warren Wood, Bedfordshire.
https://gardeningjules.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/wordless-wednesday-sweetly-scented-first-bluebells/