The vegetable garden is still pretty quiet this week so I thought we would return to ornamental gardening and look at some of the plans for my garden and some ….Read more
Tag: pollinator
The Knepp Castle Re-Wilding Project
I spent most of last weekend loafing around Kent and Sussex as I was keen to visit a few gardens while the season still has some life left in it. ….Read more
Green Manure Phacelia tanacetifolia – a perfect pollinator plant
Green Manures Green manures are ‘crops’ which are sown to cover bare soil and do a number of jobs depending on the species like protecting soil, storing nitrogen or mining ….Read more
The Fabulous Solitary Bee
I don’t know whether you know this already but of the 267 species of bee in the U.K. and Ireland, 90% of them are solitary bees. Solitary bees don’t produce ….Read more