Nic Wilson

Nic Wilson is a writer and editor, specialising in natural history and wildlife gardening. She is the author of the nature memoir Land Beneath the Waves (a BBC Wildlife Best Nature Book of 2025), a regular Guardian Country Diarist, and her work features in numerous anthologies, journals and magazines, including the RHS Magazine, The English Garden, British Wildlife, Going to Ground, Moving Mountains and Women on Nature. Her qualifications include a Diploma in Garden Design, an MA in English Literature and a Diploma in Creative Non-Fiction. She is on Bluesky @nicwilson.bsky.social

Grasses softening a flower bed edge. Neil Hepworth

30 flower bed ideas for your garden

Red campion (Silene dioica). Getty Images

How to grow red campion (Silene dioica)

Watermelon peperomia. Sarah Cuttle

Peperomia argyreia

Chafer larva. Getty Images

Chafer grubs in lawns and borders

Leaves of Field Maple. Getty Images

30 best British trees and shrubs and how to identify them

Waxwing eating berries. Getty Images

10 rare British garden birds to look out for

Gorse flowers. Getty Images

Ulex europaeus

Male Black Poplar tree, Suffolk, England. Getty Images

Complete guide to black poplar trees

Robin in the garden during winter months. Photo: Tim Sandall

25 common British garden birds and how to identify them

Frosty winter garden

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Alder catkins. Getty Images

Trees with catkins

Wood sorrel. Getty Images

How to grow wood sorrel

Anemone nemorosa. Getty Images

How to grow wood anemones

Mahonia japonica. Getty Images

Mahonia japonica

Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii). Getty Images

How to grow the common spotted orchid

Sarracenia 'Juthatip Soper'. David Bagnall / Alamy

Sarracenia 'Juthatip Soper'

Daphne odora 'Aureamarginata'. Photo: Jason Ingram

Daphne odora

Drosera capensis. Getty Images

Drosera capensis

Close up of ripe and juicy honeysuckle berries and water or rain drops on green leaves. Getty Images

How to grow a honeyberry bush

Acer platanoides autumn colour. Getty Images

How to grow Norway maple

Campsis Flamenco. Getty Images

How to grow campsis (trumpet vine)

English Oak Tree in field of Buttercups. Getty Images

Complete guide to oak trees

Zinnia flowers in a variety of colours

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Female emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator). Getty Images.

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Recently harvested sloes

How to grow and care for blackthorn

Aquilegia 'Louisiana'. Paul Debois

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Blackcap perching on branch and singing. Getty Images.

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Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green'

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Ladybird in spring. Getty images.

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Viper's bugloss flower with common carder bumblebee

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