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Wildlife gardening in November: feed the birds, check bonfires for hedgehogs, and prune fruit trees to prepare your garden for winter rest.

Gardening Slowly Into Autumn October in the garden is quieter. The frenzy of summer has passed, and the garden feels more spacious…more contemplative. The mornings are misted, the soil still holds a little warmth, and the air smells faintly of apples and leaves. And while it may seem like everything

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” — Dodinsky There’s a hush to the air now. Wildlife gardening in September brings a stillness. The mornings arrive with a

There’s a different kind of quiet in the garden now. Not the heavy stillness of high summer, but something gentler. The kind of hush that comes when the light begins to soften and the bees, once frantic in their buzzing, move more slowly between flowers. It feels like nature is

No, I’ve not gone rogue and deviated from my usual subject of nature 😂. By hovercraft, I mean the craft of helping hoverflies… With over 280 species of hoverflies recorded in the UK, I can’t pretend that I am able to identify all of them! Only about 40 are observed

When I talk about being kind to pollinators, I don’t just mean bees. They do do the lion’s share of the work in terms of pollination, however there are many other agents that are often overlooked. In the UK, hoverflies are the next most prolific pollinators, closely followed by butterflies,