Nature Blog by Jenny Bourne

The hot weather has produced some amazing skyscapes, appreciated by those of us who’ve resorted to early in the morning and late in the evening watering to escape the full heat of the day over the past week or so. After the ‘scorchio’ temperatures and lack of rain…

The bee post’s now a much visited feature of our pollinator friendly front bed – after only a few days the first solitary bees were investigating the larger holes…

This youngster has become quite a fixture round the plots – strolling nonchalently along the paths as if he (she?) owns …

Yesterday two tawny owl nest boxes, purchased by our committee, were put up in a couple of lime trees adjoining our site, under the supervision of Matt Steinmann, Royal Parks Arboricultural Officer (and his dog, Peg!), who selected two decent…

Rain at last! Decent amounts of the watery stuff now stair-rodding down for much of the day and last night..great! The ground feeders, thrushes, blackbirds, robins etc can now have a good stab at worms, snails etc and the nice, wet ground…