Author: The Wildlife Gardener

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener It has been a very quiet month in the Wildlife Garden. The fungi have

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener has a verruca. At last, after four consultations with, variously, a

The Wildlife Gardener sends this unexpected follow-up to her mushrooming exploits. The mushrooms are not the only poisonous things in

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The damp autumn has brought with it a further craving for wild mushrooms. The

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener There is an unsettling absence in the Wildlife Garden. Usually the air is filled

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener I’ve had some strange things in my fridge. Pheasants, rabbits, oysters, leggy crustaceans, wild

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so the saying goes. But Mr

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener It’s a slug eat slug world BBC news online says that there are 15

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener’s favourite landscape is chalk downland. She lives in it, walks through

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener There was strange vibration going on in the Wildlife Gardener’s bedroom today. Ooer. When