😄 I think I’ve probably described it wrong maybe more like a wheelbarrow wheel lol it sounds deeper than a great tit. I’ll have to share the recording somehow. It’s not picked up by Merlin
If you haven't cut back dead stems yet, this is probably the weekend to do it. Link below to follow what I do with leaving dead stems on the ground.
Thanks Danny. It is a game changer, simple but I agree it makes total sense.
Thanks for all the suggestions, I think it might have been a jay song but I was far enough away to not hear the croaky start. It was a bit like a deflating honk if that makes sense. I’ve listened to the suggestions and they do sound like bike wheels, but other bike wheels 😂
Does anyone know what bird makes a call like a squeaky bike wheel? My app is saying jackdaw but I don’t think that’s right
In The Guardian Saturday magazine, a feature from me to kickstart your spring with my 10 easiest crops for the highest yields. I can’t pretend the world is in a good place at the moment, but growing your own food is always worthwhile.
You can do it 😊 always worth trying at least twice
Actually, I think the wow for me comes from colour, often with tall vertical plants that stand out creating contrast and random repetition
I’m thinking ‘there must be something’ as I’ve had wow moments but nothing comes to mind that is that kind of wow for conservation grassland. I’ll keep thinking. In our garden there’s something that has the potential long term. I’ll message you.
Gardening ideas for March. This is a good weekend to sow your first batch of seeds. I started with lettuce, radish and beetroot. www.wildway.info/p/march-gard...
10 of my favourite hassle-free harvests to grow this spring, in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thank you Owen
Seed sowing has begun! Have you started too? www.wildway.info/p/march-gard... (free access)
10 of my favourite hassle-free harvests to grow this spring, in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
“Buddleja 'Lochinch' is a large but compact deciduous shrub” gardening loves a contradictory description
Anyone interested?
This is all just gardening - thank you sunny weather
Just moved a little toad off our drive - poor little thing was frozen in front of our car thinking it was camouflaged but would just get run over. Toads are actually really cute, they get a bad rep.
thank you :)
Penstemon grown from dust size seeds in multipurpose peat free compost last spring. Sat in these pots for a year, very healthy. Didn’t even fertilise. Peat free compost is amazing!
Gardeners in the Mist
I think they might have an adaptation to that happening, maybe from grazing?
How to play with daisies for some super easy and stylish design shenanigans! Lesson today for paid subs... www.wildway.info/p/bellis-per...
Out now! My first ‘Final Say’ column for Gardens Illustrated 💞 Starting a conversation on some big topics that will cover a wide range of subjects. Using the latest insights and research.
First bees today in our garden, all over the snowdrops - I've read in the past snowdrops aren't used but that's like because the people were looking at them on gloomy days. In the sunshine pollinators are all over them.
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“many of the 2,500 [moth] species in the UK are at risk, with numbers having fallen by 33% since the 1960s. This is due to factors including habitat loss, climate breakdown and pollution.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Starmer is no Churchill” somehow puts Starmer in a much stronger light to me - I guess by Trump saying who he thinks Starmer isn’t, it starts to show the world who our Prime Minister is. Someone who stands up against illegal, unplanned warfare that drags the world and British people into danger.
I hope people see this - I’m frustrated with Starmer on multiple things but on this he has it spot on and it’s good to see someone with a backbone standing up to Trump thinking he can simply drag our countries into war without any notice whatsoever.
Ooh, I can do this one unlike the new year hunt! (No flowers here on new year 😞)
