This episode is all about sweet scents and fragrant clouds enveloping your evening garden, plus of course why night flowering plants are good for wildlife. We also talk about a lovely native night-flowerer, the Nottingham Catchfly or Silene nutans.
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Next book club
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RHS Do Bees Need Weeds – Books from the RHS Garden Design
RHS Do Bees Need Weeds | NHBS Field Guides & Natural History
Science of scent
What can I plant to help bats in my garden? | Sussex Wildlife Trust
Bats as pollinators – Why bats matter – Bat Conservation Trust
Closterocerus ruforum (nhm.ac.uk)
Choice night-scented plants
Jasminum officinale | common jasmine/RHS Gardening
Trachelospermum jasminoides | star jasmine/RHS Gardening
Wisteria floribunda | Japanese wisteria/RHS Gardening
Hosta plantaginea | fragrant plantain lily/RHS Gardening
Pittosporum tenuifolium | tawhiwhi/RHS Gardening
Hesperis matronalis | dame’s violet/RHS Gardening
Nicotiana sylvestris | woodland tobacco plant/RHS Gardening
Nicotiana ‘Lime Green’ | tobacco plant ‘Lime Green’/RHS Gardening
Zaluzianskya ovata | night scented phlox/RHS Gardening
Oenothera biennis | common evening primrose/RHS Gardening
Matthiola longipetala subsp. bicornis | night-scented stock/RHS Gardening
Lonicera periclymenum | common honeysuckle/RHS Gardening
Silene nutans – The Nottingham Catchfly
Silene nutans | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)
Silene_nutans_species_account.pdf (bsbi.org)
Nottinghamshire history > A History of Nottinghamshire: Flora and Fauna (1896) (nottshistory.org.uk)
Coleophora nutantella – UKMoths
