We produce The Wildlife Garden Podcast, all about what you can do for wildlife right at home! Every fortnight, we take an in-depth look at a particular topic, host a book club or talk to an exciting guest. We also champion a ‘native plant of the week’ with each recording too. Listen to one of our episodes below, complete with links to everything we discuss and where you can subscribe for future episodes.
Interview: Gareth Richards plus Nettles
This episode we host our first ever guest. Author and RHS Digital Features Editor Gareth Richards gives us a tour around his allotment and talks us through what allotmenteers can do for wildlife. We also talk about…
Night scents and The Nottingham Catchfly
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…
Ponds and Purple Loosestrife
As our ponds fill with croaks and tadpoles, we talk about our latest book club offering, ‘The Wildlife Pond Book’ by Jules Howard. To go alongside, we cover a wonderful wetland plant that is also great for…
Hedges and Daffodils
This episode we discuss the importance of hedges for wildlife and the beautiful native daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Here are the links to all the organisations, campaigns and events we talked about in the latest episode. Listen and…
Garden pests and Celandine
This week we talk about our top three things to keep in mind when dealing with garden pests in a way that doesn’t damage wildlife, and discuss one of our favourite gardening books by Kate Bradbury. We…
Wildlife Gardening and Dogwood
It’s about time we gave a general background to Wildlife Gardening! Plus, we have a look at one of our favourite native shrubs Cornus sanguinea, also known as the Dogwood. Here are the links to all the…
Websites for Wildlife Gardeners
Amateur Entomologists’ Society Amateur Entomologists’ Society (AES) – The gateway to entomology (amentsoc.org) Amphibian and Reptile Groups Home – Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK (arguk.org) Amphibian and Reptiles Conservation Trust The Amphibian and Reptile Conservation…
Nestboxes and Ivy
To celebrate National Nestbox Week, we are talking about a fantastic book by the British Trust for Ornithology and discussing the wildlife wonder-plant that is our native Ivy. We cover some of the latest news and upcoming…
Feeding birds and Hazel trees
Welcome back! In this episode we cover some latest news about peat and bumblebees, and talk about everything you need to know about feeding your garden birds. We also have a in-depth look at the lovely hazel…
New Podcast and Primroses
Our first podcast! We cover how the podcast will work, what we are up to and who we are. We also talk about some up-to-date news and our native plant of the week, the wonderful Primrose. Here…
