Jan 30, 2015
Nurturing Nature with South Liverpool Homes Group Residents Last spring, I was approached to teach a 6 week ‘taster’ organic and wildlife gardening course on behalf of the South Liverpool Homes Group to be held at Dutch Farm where the Liverpool Food...
Jan 28, 2015
Where are my Siskin visitors? I do get siskins on my garden feeders during the depths of winter but this year they have decided to stay in the countryside. Now I know why thanks to Clare Simm of the BTO Garden ! News Release 2015-04 January Missing: Garden...
Jan 16, 2015
Bumblebee queens mate, then hibernate! After mating queen bumblebees will continue to feed up for a while and then go off in search of a suitable hibernation site. I have only ever found one and was disappointed in the fact that a passerby and his dog disturbed this...
Jan 15, 2015
Bumblebees queens need early spring flowers. It really is quite simple. For newly emerged bumblebee queens after awakening from hibernation: No flowers = no food = no bumblebees! Without the appropriate forage plants, bumblebee queens will not survive at...
Jan 14, 2015
Its not only birds that use bird feeders! Bumblebee hibernation or ‘sleep over’ site? Early September I was out in the garden when I saw bird seeds falling to the ground from a bird feeder next door. I looked inside it to find a queen tree bumblebee,...
Jan 13, 2015
A wildlife gardener’s attitude to lawn mowing! In my last house I made a lovely wildlife garden. When mowing the lawn, I would deliberately leave small patches of wildflowers uncut in the lawn to flower. I thought the clover, selfheal, buttercups, daiseys and...
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