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Two wrongs don’t make a right

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I love it when the elder trees are in flower 💞

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Bottom trawling tears up fragile seabed habitats & harms the life that depends on them. Today’s UK Government decision to ban it in 40+ Marine Protected Areas offers hope: a chance to let our seas recover & life return. 🌊 Let's see Marine Protected Areas live up to their name.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

New reserve in the heart of the Dales will return rainforests to Yorkshire www.ywt.org.uk/news/new-res... via @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

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Download Google Earth, go to View > Historical Data and zoom in on the farmland of Gaza. From the north down it has been ploughed and bulldozed. You can see the tracks. Here is one area in the middle of Gaza through 2024.

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Google Earth has just released satellite imagery of Gaza December - we're familiar with seeing destroyed buildings, but the thing that strikes me is how much farmland there is producing food for the population, and how that is gone. Replaced with tracks through the soil. Nov 23 vs Dec 24.

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Anyone else hearing too much “recycle and reuse” and not enough “56 companies cause over 50%” of plastic pollution?

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I can’t get over how many flowers there suddenly are 😲💞🌱 Buttercups proving extremely useful for wildlife and colour, while also highlighting gaps for other plants.

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The Brit Awards are leaving London for Manchester for the first time in 48 years. It's time for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to do the same, here's why: www.wildway.info/p/does-rhs-c...

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Well it’s not not a garden 😬

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Making more effort to help the ragged robin set seed this year - I’ll collect some and grow as plug plants

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Delighted to see that we've been recommended as a top UK nursery to buy plants online by @theguardian.com . May explain why we've had a lovely flurry of orders this morning :-). All being picked now and will be despatched Mon/Tue next week. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Weekend reading about Viburnum opulus, a shrub that looks like a stylish multistem small tree, with flowers, berries and autumn colour www.wildway.info/p/viburnum-o...

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Misleading take from BBC News - the article explains that spending has gone down and would have now been higher under the Conservative plans. So in one year, Labour has curbed spend in this area. BBC suggesting they aren’t heading in the right direction is misleading www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Weekend reading about Viburnum opulus, a shrub that looks like a stylish multistem small tree, with flowers, berries and autumn colour www.wildway.info/p/viburnum-o...

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Heading into summer - where our garden and crops are at as we near the solstice www.wildway.info/p/heading-in...

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Viburnum opulus | guelder rose - much underused wild shrub for small and urban gardens www.wildway.info/p/viburnum-o...

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Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Writing, writing. I love writing! Writing to write. Writing to be. Writing to learn. Writing to share. Writing to weave imagination into beautiful things.

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I like this flat packaging from Woodland Trust All recyclable and the bags will decompose. It made me think perhaps mail order nurseries need to grow shrubs and climbers in narrow pots instead of traditional pots for this purpose. Too many plants and compost rattle around in normal pots.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In the interests of trying to be more productive, I blitzed through the boring chore of trying up all the tomatoes and planted out and netted (from pheasants) all of our broccoli

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Does anyone else have nature obsession? Where you go outside for two minutes and then find yourself staring at seedlings or bees for an hour, when you really should be doing something more productive 🤔

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

There's really no coming back from this for the world

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A number of decades under my belt, I see now how challenging it is for scientists to explain to the public about nature and climate change. Eg here we have scientists literally showing people the evidence of biodiversity collapse but many people still go "nah". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Latest lesson on my Garden Design Guide for paid subscribers, 10 tough plants for early June spectacle www.wildway.info/p/10-tough-p...

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Speak out - name it as genocide - and then act. End all arms sales, impose a wide range of sanctions and call for the arrest and trial of all those guilty of war crimes, including prime minister Netanyahu.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Latest lesson on my Garden Design Guide for paid subscribers, 10 tough plants for early June spectacle www.wildway.info/p/10-tough-p...

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Good news! They should share this stuff sooner. Here's why we need a national map of all assets from important nature to potentially suitable renewable sites - without it, it's impossible to make informed decisions or track progress: www.jackwallington.com/why-the-uk-n...

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Concern over planning bill amendments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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People wonder why nature organisations are angry with Labour, the party made clear direct promises and they've already broken them. Some examples: stopping the badger cull, banning peat based composts, banning snares, banning trail hunting. All easily doable, so why have they delayed by a year?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The fact the last Conservative Government locked up people holding its ministers to account for harming all our lives will go down in history as the biggest own goal. The new Labour Government, which uses the policy of no new oil from Just Stop Oil, needs to release these people.

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