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'Grow Your Own' Week: Garden birds

By Richard Jones on 31/03/2010 11:44:58

and Their Haunts by the Rev. C.A. Johns, was published in 1862 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, on the back of his success with Flowers of the Field (1851). Both books were in print for over a century, and it's easy to see why.To start, Johns


Tidying your garden in autumn

By Kate Bradbury on 15/10/2010 15:03:14

In the October issue of Gardeners’ World magazine, I ask Richard Jones and James Alexander-Sinclair for their views on autumn tidying in relation to the harm it can cause overwintering wildlife. As their recent blogs demonstrate, they don't see eye


Feeding birds in summer

By Gardeners' World on 12/07/2011 06:48:10

Feeding the birdsFeeding birds used to be a winter activity, from Christmas until the first spring flowers appeared. But birds need our help in the summer months just as much as during the winter.Because birds breed in the spring and early summer


Dead thrushes and the bloody nose beetle

By Richard Jones on 18/08/2010 16:43:31

To Soicherons, Villars-Dompierre, in the Cote d'Or region of France for two weeks and the wildlife here is subtly different to that in East Dulwich. For one thing we are surrounded by large flowery meadows, hedges dripping with Mirabelle plums


Bumblebees and climate change

By Richard Jones on 13/03/2013 13:04:46

north, and further up mountainsides.They knew that bumblebees visit flowers to collect pollen and nectar, but they didn’t know that despite pictures on the side of many a jar, we do not get honey from bumblebees, that’s honeybees. I’m quite a stickler


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