A Contested Land
March 28, 2024
21st century Britain in collision with prehistory on Dartmoor.
Wild Service Tree (Torminalis glaberrima)
February 5, 2024
The Wild Service tree (Torminalis glaberrima) - all you need to know.
Brilliant Buckthorn
January 11, 2024
Why we all need some Buckthorn!
More Plants Please
March 14, 2023
I watch the wonderful Wild Isles with mixed emotions. I was very lucky to meet David Attenborough back in the noughties when we sold some wildflowe...
The Stone Pine
November 7, 2022
I was 60 this year, so we treated ourselves to a trip around France and Italy. When we got back, partly to to remember it and partly because I'm tr...
A Nightingale Sang...
May 3, 2022
Nightingales; a lesson for our times.
It's Up To Us
September 15, 2021
We shouldn't wait for government - we need to sort this mess out ourselves.
To Guard Or Not To Guard
January 29, 2021
We've planted trees for hundreds of years before the arrival of the plastic tree guard. John Evelyn didn't need them, so why do we now? Some suspec...
Disconnected
November 2, 2020
We need to re-engage people with the landscape. Here's something which might help...
Vanishing Hedgerows
September 16, 2020
Hedgerows are a critical natural asset and should be managed more carefully.
Blossom, Blossom, And More Blossom!
April 18, 2020
You can have blossom in your garden from January to May. Here's why you want it and how you can have it!
Trees For Votes
November 17, 2019
You can only be encouraged by the tree planting bidding war going on between our politicians at the moment, I suppose. 30 million trees, 60 millio...
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