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How To Prepare Your Wild Space For The Big Butterfly Count
Sophie Hall gives her top tips for preparing your Wild Space, big or small, to attract butterflies and moths in time for the count,...
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Jan 203 min read
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Sustainable Gardening Ideas
Sustainable gardening practices to reduce waste and conserve resources Sustainable gardening practices are essential for reducing waste...
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Oct 30, 20242 min read
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Your Garden can provide a safe place for wildlife to over-winter.
Autumn is here and Winter is fast approaching – so how do we protect and care for our garden wildlife during these cold and wet months?...
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Oct 6, 20243 min read
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Chemical Free Gardening
It can be soul destroying to find garden pests have eaten your plants. Keeping your garden pest-free without using chemicals is not only...
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Jun 17, 20242 min read
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Growing the best tomatoes
Growing tomatoes can be a rewarding experience with the right knowledge and techniques. Here are some tips to help you grow the best...
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Jun 10, 20242 min read
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10 Easy Ideas for a Wildlife Garden
Much is written about the dire situation with the decline in insect and pollinator species as well as birds and garden mammals. This is a...
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Jun 4, 20242 min read
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Hedgehog Awareness Week
Hedgehogs are native to the UK and are one of the most recognisable wild mammals in the country. However, urbanisation and changes in...
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May 5, 20242 min read
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Butterflies are Pollinators too!
Butterflies play a crucial role in ecosystems and hold significant value for the environment. They are important pollinators for many...
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Mar 21, 20243 min read
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How to create Pollinator Pit Stops in your garden
Creating pollinator pit stops in your garden is a wonderful way to support and attract pollinators like bees, butterflies, and other...
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Feb 26, 20242 min read
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The amazing power of gardening for our mental health
Have you ever looked at a beautiful display of flowers and felt a rush of happiness? Or spent some quiet time in your garden and felt...
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Jun 12, 20233 min read
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Drought Tolerant Planting
It is becoming more important to grow drought resistant plants in a UK garden because the UK experiences periods of dry weather and...
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May 25, 20233 min read
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Do you recognise Non-Native plants?
Over several centuries gardens in the UK have been enriched by the introduction of plants from outside the UK referred to as non-native...
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Apr 28, 20232 min read
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Guildford in Bloom Launches Crowdfunding Appeal
Guildford in Bloom has launched a crowdfunding appeal to raise £23,000 to secure its future for the next two year and continue to bring...
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Mar 31, 20232 min read
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Companion Planting
By following companion planting, you can work with nature in your garden or allotment and not against nature. Points are awarded for...
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Feb 20, 20233 min read
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For King and Countryside
Our 2023 Theme for our Main Competition and our Guildford Schools in Bloom. Following on from our 2022 theme of The Queen's Platinum...
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Feb 8, 20232 min read
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Bee Kind - creating a haven for pollinators
It is widely accepted that all insects are in decline globally, which includes the many wild bee species in the UK as well as the managed...
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Oct 25, 20222 min read
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19 August is National Potato Day
To celebrate National Potato Day, we asked TeamGIB member Mike - how he had got on this year growing the nations favourite vegetable ...
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Aug 19, 20222 min read
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We help Pond Meadow School get plants from RHS Hampton Court Festival
So - when our School Judges were out and about, they visited Pond Meadow School in Guildford. All the children who attend Pond Meadow...
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Jul 10, 20222 min read
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Pumpkin Beth talks about What is Peat & Why Does Peat-Free Gardening Matter?
by Beth Otway AKA Pumpkin Beth Beth Otway is a Horticulturist and Garden Writer and you can follow her at www.pumpkinbeth.com Twitter:...
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Jun 14, 20226 min read
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Go wild in your garden!
Some great advice on creating a wildlife garden from Marcus Wehrle of Surrey Wildlife Trust Photo - House Sparrow - Jon Hawkins - Surrey...
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May 11, 20224 min read
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