Muvs Dashwood

Wildlife gardening...hopes for the future

Oooh look

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

Might need more wool lol

Wildlife gardening...hopes for the future

I have started guerilla gardening. I live on a cul-de-sac that has supported housing for vulnerable people attached and we have large swathes of grass outside tended [at our expense] by a gardening team. By the side of my house outside of my fence - I am the last of the terrace - I have 4 large evergreen oaks but its a huge area and I put all my logs out there and usually cover it with the leaves I get. I have also started to throw seeds on the bank that does get some sun - did some this morning - and am hoping to colonise it with wildflower seeds and some california poppies. I am even thinking of taking my guerilla gardening to some verges around here. Perhaps I should invest in a balaclava.

Talkback: Planting snake's head fritillaries

I saw some packets of fritillarie seeds at the GC this week. Would be cheaper if you wanted a lot but I don't know how successful they would be.

Front Garden

My local council have been using block planting of verbena bonariensis this year. Perhaps not for you but it looks glorious and it is alive with flying things.

Long-handled bulb planter

Would it be at all suspicious if we all wrote? I would like one though.

Long-handled bulb planter

Figrat you are right Sneeboer do one and it is almost £60. Ah how lovely to have the paypacket of the BBC!

Starlings

With all these decorative 'bird cages' around -online and in shops - some are very attractive and if you are careful and choose one with the right size gaps you can put a fat ball or seed feeder inside and keep squirrels and other large feeders out and they look very lovely to boot. And of course the birds don't get the irony.

Wild Garlic

I took over this garden and it is over run with it. It seems to be a bit of a weed here.

Keeping Cats and Wildlife apart?

I think it was Chris Packham who said that feeding your cats - I have 2 - in the morning instead of at night would save a great many birds. We did this - my son used to feed them at night to make sure they were in - and I don't think they have caught any since we changed it. It makes sense as they are full and just want to sleep when the birds are most active. They have bells and are always in at night. Cats keep other cats away, if there were no domestic cats we would just have feral communities who aren't neutered, fed, wormed or have bells. We too have magpies who bully the smaller birds and the jays have been very chavvy lol. I think the only casualty this year was the youngest cat - only a kitten really - who in her pursuit of bees got stung on the cheek.

GW Presenters

*under the cover of a steel helmet* Lovedlovedloved GH still watch his DVD's. AT was slightly disappointing, I was really hoping for more. I never watched Toby but saw him in other things and found him irritating and on the whole patronising. MD is ok but, a big but, his budget is far too big. His pond!! It was done in a flash and planted up. Not many of us could afford his time scale or scale. I would like a little more knowledge about whatever species he is talking about with some recommendations. CK is ok and her books are very good. I am watching the Beechgrove Garden on iPlayer now so will see what that is like. What I miss most about GH was his cheap versions of stuff ie my budget. There is nothing like that anymore. 

A chapter of a book

In flower now

Plants for scent.

Tree and shrub stumps.