March 2021 Wildlife Gardening Enews
Spring news from the garden at Plumgarths.
Blog: wildlife gardening
Image: Tom Marshall
We welcome guest bloggers! If you've something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've made a bird box, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife & wild places then we'd love to hear from you!
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November at Gosling Sike
The latest Gosling Sike-inspired poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.
Wildlife friendly garden sculptures
Wildlife-friendly sculpture? Why not give it a go, says Dyane
Annual flowering border for pollinators by Kevin Line
Developing a flowering annual border with plant selections for wildlife.
Nature Diary No. 7 early June by Peter and Sylvia Woodhead
Visiting local Nature reserves and observing seasonal changes.
Nature Diary No. 6 late May 2020 Peter and Sylvia Woodhead page 2
Wildlife and wild flowers seen on local walks.
Nature Diary No. 2 Early April 2020 by Peter and Sylvia Woodhead
Our Nature blog for early April 2020, with plants and wildlife seen in local gardens during lockdown.
How to make your veg patch wildlife-friendly
Dyane Silvester challenges the view that crops and wildlife don't mix
A Passion for Bees by Kevin Line
I have always found myself constantly transfixed in wonderment at the sight of bees escorting each other around the amazing structure of the flower heads of passion flower (Passiflora), busily…
Every Flower Counts
Laura Giles urges us to ditch the mower this month and get close up and personal with our lawn, to see how many flowers are growing there