Butterfly gardens & feathery fortunes

The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes

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Hello and welcome to the Nature Garden Podcast, with me, Carl Stiansen, and the Weekending Show Team from Lionheart Radio.

It’s a chance to take a wander down the garden path and country lane… with the birds and the bees and the flowers and trees… and an opportunity to hear stories from the past and present…

In this episode… Tom Pattinson is floating like a butterfly to see what kind of plants and shrubs attract them to the garden…

Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust… has some tips on how to make your outdoor patch a haven for all kinds of nature…

Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology has been watching the amazing habits of sparrows and how egrets survived the fads of fashion

Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…

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Chapters

1. Intro and music: Carl Cape Band: Princess of the Ocean (00:00:00)

2. Butterfly Gardens part 1 - Big Butterfly Count (00:02:01)

3. Feathery fortunes: little egrets (00:07:50)

4. Butterfly Gardens part 2 (00:14:42)

5. Wildflowers, weeds & butterflies (00:20:51)

6. Surprising sparrows (00:26:45)

7. Jobs for the week in the garden with Tom Pattinson (00:31:36)

8. Outro (00:36:53)