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Getting Wild About Gardens
The buzz of a bee, the sweet scent of honeysuckle, these precious moments are not only a delight to experience in our gardens, they’re absolutely vital if we’re going to protect, restore and…
Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
Spurge laurel
Despite its name, Spurge laurel is not a laurel - it just looks like one! It has glossy, dark green leaves and black, poisonous berries, and can be found in woodlands in southern England, in…
Identify garden birds
Cambridge Local Group Event: Tour of Clare College Gardens by Kate Hargreaves and John Mears
A guided tour of Clare College Gardens
The garden is buzzing!
Reserves officer David Price is underway with a wildlife garden, planning a 'long banquet of flowers' from early-flowering plants to those lasting until November, all favoured by the…
Garden bumblebee
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
When a 'new' species isn't news
Whether you call it a species or a subspecies, good conservation helps take care of both
Black garden ant
The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm…
Garden tiger moth
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…
30 Days Wild - Day Eighteen - Photograph your garden
Enjoying the fruits of a wildlife garden....