Out in spring, dark-edged bee-flies are one of the first pollinators you’ll encounter in the year. A furry fly with a high-pitched buzz, you’ll be forgiven for thinking it’s a bumblebee!

How important is it just to walk around the garden at this time of year and just get a sense of what is happening to wildlife?

Sadly, I really can't remember the last time I saw a living hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus).

We started to construct the Apple archway walk in the autumn off 2019.

Gosling Sike’s regular Tuesday volunteer group from Carlisle Mencap had a break from weeding recently and worked with writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith to pen poetry and prose inspired by…

Some plants tip the balance as to what is regarded as a weed/wild flower or a cultivated plant. But I think we should embrace them for their value to wildlife, and not as gardening misfits!

I started totally using peat free compost in 2004 when working for BBC Gardeners World.

Hedgerows seem to hold a hidden aura of magic from the tallest to the shortest.

There's no doubt about it, wildlife gardening is a captivating subject both in theory and in practice.

There is a definite chill in the air as I write this in the first official week in spring.