Wivenhoe Gardening For Nature

25/10/2024

A great post - clear, simple and comprehensive.

How to use garden design to support wildlife

22/08/2024

Another excellent post from Jack Wallington - a really good wildlife gardener whose book, Wild about Weeds is a revelation.

A future plant for an unpredictable world

23/07/2024

This takes you to the RSPB's newsletter with details of their own range of wildlife friendly roses and a nice little video about making a wildlife garden. Enjoy!

21/06/2024

Ox-eye Daisy. what’s not to like?

My ultimate reliable daisy, the easy and edible summer wonder.

17/06/2024

There are some great websites and other sources for ideas and background to supporting nature in the garden. Few come more authoritative than the RHS so we’re featuring the link to their own Wild about Gardens website.
It’s a fantastic resource.

Take action for wildlife in your garden by taking part in this joint initiative between the RHS and The Wildlife Trusts. Help create happy homes for British wildlife!

13/05/2024

We are very lucky to have helpful organisations like Essex Wildlife Trust and Beth Chatto Gardens locally. They provide advice and inspiration for wildlife freely and authoritatively.

Here John Attiwell, (Community Ranger at the Wildlife Trust) and our own Dr Chris Gibson, Wildlife Advocate at Beth Chatto Gardens) give their advice about plants for butterfly caterpillars and year round pollinators respectively.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjysRIif4TXAhtk0OFZ4y7nWoqZASA

30/04/2024

One for anyone wondering what to do to bring water into their garden.

Find out how adding water to any garden will help to bring it to life with our Wild Weekender team. Find more Nature on Your Doorstep ideas: https://www.rspb...

21/04/2024

19/04/2024

Jack Wallington publishes really interesting snippets on a frequent basis. I love Red Dead-nettle and enjoyed this piece enormously. I hope you do too.

How to grow purple dead-nettle, a gentle bee friendly wildflower

28/03/2024

Are there any budding Martin Scorsese’s or Ridley Scott’s in Wivenhoe that would be interested in helping us out? 🎥🎬🌱🌻

The Gardening for Nature team intends to make some short videos of how an existing garden can be enhanced for nature recovery. The aim is to produce something that might inspire people who are interested in making their gardens more wildlife-friendly but don’t know where to start.

If you’d be interested in volunteering your time we’d love to hear from you! Please send us an email at [email protected]

Thank you!

28/03/2024

We just watched this and liked it, so here it is...a little bit about primroses

Primroses are a clear sign that spring is on the way. Learn all about this special flower and its connection to fairies with Plantlife's Freya Davies.Or read...

25/02/2024

Great article from my friend and colleague, Josh Pangurha from Naturetrek on G4N...
https://www.naturetrek.co.uk/news/rewilding-tips-from-naturetrek-ecologist?highlight=WyJyZXdpbGRpbmciLCIncmV3aWxkaW5nJyJd&fbclid=IwAR3Ci7Rfej8oHZr0x-KeCgpYm69QwSwLrQDXyLpgllYMJetAnoxuVyb6nUI

Winter is a great time to add a pond to your land, allowing it to fill naturally with rain water and be ready in time for the first signs of spring! Adding a source of water is a wonderful way to increase biodiversity value, and it is incredible how quickly wildlife starts to arrive, as we witnessed...