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Gardening

Trees for bees: how Wakehurst is using citizen science to help pollinators

Sian Watts and Janine Griffiths-Lee, 11 July 2024 - Gardening, Nature, Plants, Pollinators

In our second post to celebrate Bees’ Needs Week, Senior Policy advisor Sian Watts sat down with Wakehurst’s pollination research lead Dr Janine Griffiths-Lee, to find out how they use citizen science to help pollinators.

5 simple actions to help pollinators this Bees’ Needs Week

Sian Watts, 8 July 2024 - Gardening, Nature, Plants, Pollinators

The Environment Blog is back! We’ll keep you updated with all the latest policy news. But it’s also Bees’ Needs Week, so today we’re writing about how you can support pollinators with 5 simple actions.

In conversation with Westerfield Station Adopters, 2023 Bees Needs Champion

Sarah Galley, 21 March 2024 - Community, Gardening, Nature, Plants, Pollinators

In this post, Defra policy advisor Sarah Galley sits down with 2023 Bees Needs Champion Westerfield Station Adopters to learn more about how they're raising awareness of pollinators and bees' needs locally.

Preventing the spread of invasive plants from your garden

Lucy Cornwell, 23 February 2024 - Gardening, Invasive species, Nature, Plants

In this blog, Lucy from the GB Non-native Species Secretariat talks to us about invasive plants and how we can identify these species as well as prevent the spread of them in our garden.

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