Composting flowers from a crematorium
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. Several years ago, whilst working for Warrington Collegiate Institute and later Mysercough College, as a gardening tutor, I...
Home made slug killing soup? A case of well intentioned pseudoscience?
Slugs and home made slug killing soup with nematodes I was made aware of a recent press article in the Daily Telegraph about a home made slug killing soup! The article recommended making a homemade slug killing 'soup' by collecting 10-20 slugs and putting them into a...
Living willow dome – A good example of ecotherapy!
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. Making natural Christmas wreathes from willow etc, has proved to be very popular with 100's people visiting the pages on...
Great tits with young in a nest box
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. The great tit, (Parus major ) the most studied bird in the world! Although its preferred habitat is deciduous woodland it is...
Nurturing Nature bumblebee nest box- Introducing the bumblebee ‘cat flap’!
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. Click here for pricing and to buy any of the accessories for your Bumblebee Nest Box For almost two years I have been...
Learning science through nature
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. Learning outdoors, enables school children to explore the outside world and learn by discovering a whole new world....
Hedgehogs? Not seen in many gardens due to fencing !
Have you seen my new Hedgehog "Watch and Feed" station? See video taken in my garden! Does it work? Beautifully! As do all of my products! I will donate £2 donated to hedgehog trusts/societies in the UK for each box sold. Hedgehogs in decline Many people love...
Slugs, slug pellets and predatory ground beetles
Predatory beetles, slugs and metaldehyde slug pellets Slugs, slug pellets and predatory ground beetles, what have they got to do with the decline of song thrushes? Read on and all will be revealed! When I was a part time mature student at university, I needed a topic...
Wasp attacks, kills and dismembers honey bee next to busy hives
All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes, and wormeries. There are numerous species of wasps and most of them are unknown to many people. They are known as solitary wasps and to us...
Leafcutter bees-harmless, useful and often neglected pollinator
Leafcutter bees, rarely seen by many people but ever so useful! I designed my award-winning solitary bee nest box for numerous reasons. I found the other commercial ones turned out to be' bee cemeteries ' not bee hotels, for the leaf cutters and red mason bees and my...