Plan(t) for Autumn!
August is underway and as the days shorten a little more, we make our way through the final weeks of Summer. This month, there are steps you can take that will help to ensure your garden continues…
August is underway and as the days shorten a little more, we make our way through the final weeks of Summer. This month, there are steps you can take that will help to ensure your garden continues…
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
If you've signed up to Get Dorset Buzzing, you may have noticed that The Gardens Group is offering 10% off pollinator-friendly plants for each month of the campaign. In this blog, Mike talks…
Now October has arrived, the island is looking ever more autumnal. Fungi is starting to appear on rotten logs and dead trees all over the reserve; the squirrels are busy caching food for the…
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Wild Seas Centre Officer, Julie Hatcher tells us about the hardy wildflowers of Kimmeridge - and why they survive in a harsh environment.
Join our one or two day courses at Lorton Meadows nature reserve (Dorset Wildlife Trust), lead by local artists Sally Pinhey and Margaret Tebbs.
Join this one or two day course at Lorton Meadows nature reserve (Dorset Wildlife Trust), lead by local artists Sally Pinhey and Margaret Tebbs.
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
The London plane tree is, as its name suggests, a familiar sight along the roadsides and in the parks of London. An introduced and widely planted species, it is tough enough to put up with city…
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.