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Notes from a Wildlife Garden 

Spurn Spawn!

26th February, 201426th February, 2014 The Wildlife Gardener 1 Comment amphibians, disease, froglife, frogs, gardening, ponds, spawn, tadpoles

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener “We’ve got loads of frogspawn. Would you like some for your pond?” is the question most asked of the Wildlife Gardener at this time

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Bluebells on wheels: axles of evil?

2nd February, 2011 The Wildlife Gardener 2 Comments bluebells, funny, national trust

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener is concerned that the National Trust could do a bit more to help solve the obesity crisis. The Spring issue of

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Raising the ba: Wildlife and the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

8th January, 2011 The Wildlife Gardener 1 Comment Egyptology

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener is partial to a bit of papyrology. Egypt old and new has been a substantial part of my life and I

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Hen today, gone tomorrow

8th December, 2010 The Wildlife Gardener 6 Comments hens

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener It was bound to happen sometime. We’ve just lost one of the Wildlife Garden hens. Bizarrely, it was Mademoiselle Pompidelle, the’big blousy orange Diana

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100 – The Wildlife Garden Centenary issue

15th November, 20107th July, 2014 The Wildlife Gardener 4 Comments

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener can’t quite believe it, here I am penning the 100th ‘Note From A Wildlife Garden’.  It’s almost four years since we

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Designer Homes? Wildlife says no

7th November, 2010 The Wildlife Gardener 2 Comments

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener is not keen on gimmicks. Purchases should have longevity, no frills, be fit for purpose and do what they say on

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Halma’ mushrooms ” a deadly game?

16th September, 2010 The Wildlife Gardener 3 Comments

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardeners have been out mushroom foraging again. But this time we also solved a potentially deadly mystery. You’ll remember the’funny little grey

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Cep this way…

5th September, 2010 The Wildlife Gardener 10 Comments

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardeners have had enough of cutting mixed hedgerows. We want to get out. It’s September, it has been raining, it’s warm, it

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Fly, dragonfly, fly

20th August, 2010 The Wildlife Gardener 19 Comments

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener Yikes! The Wildlife Gardener nearly trod on a large nymph on the side of the pond today. Carefully noting where it was so I

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A touch of the Vapourers

6th July, 2010 The Wildlife Gardener 20 Comments

By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener agreed to water a friend’s roses while she went to Glastonbury. Little did I know that, a fortnight later, my neighbourliness

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