A New Hedge
I’ve been itching to think up a new hedge project for ages, and now we have one. Emboldened by Mike the new gardener we are taking a bite out of what is currently pasture and filling it with an...
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Courses to feel warm about
Alexander PopeI’ve just snared our final keynote speaker for the courses we’re running next year, which means we can put out our corporate update for December. Sigh of relief. The courses – on...
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How to Become a Minor Deity
Still recovering from our older son George’s 18th I spent some down time in the garden today looking for butterflies. Appropriately enough, as next week is Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly...
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Disappearing Hedgerows
Amazingly we are still losing our hedgerows, according to a report from the Campaign for Rural England (CPRE). “Amazingly” because I thought they were so well protected by legislation and because...
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We Need Botanists not Bond Traders.
We saw the stage show “Enron” a couple of weeks ago. Great entertainment, but it also brought back memories of my time in financial services, as I spent over twenty years working in the Japanese stock...
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Planting Native Hedges: Why and How To
Introduction We forget why and how to plant a native British hedge. We take our hedges for granted. They’ve got a history going back to the bronze age, making them one of the oldest man made features...
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