The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes

Yule logs, winter bees & robins

December 19, 2020 The Weekending Show Season 2 Episode 7
The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes
Yule logs, winter bees & robins
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We look back at was has been a topsy-turvy 2020 and look ahead with positive thoughts about the New Year … 

Tom Pattinson reflects on a very unusual gardening year … and has some wonderful apple scented seasonal tips on yule logs

Steve Lowe, Northumberland Rivers Trust, is out and about with nature on a wander along a hidden jewel of a river... 

Tom Cadwallender is celebrating festive birds, and looking at the Christmas robin and how 2020 brought us some amazing new county records…

And 

… We’ve got winter bees with Buglife and how to help them…

Music from Carl Cape Band:
It Must Be Christmas Time and Auld Lang Syne
And the Durham University  Music Choir:
While Shepherds Watched

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Music link: Gaia by Carl Cape Band on Amazon Music - Amazon.co.uk

Intro: Carl Cape Band: It Must Be Christmas Time
Gardening reflections with Tom Pattinson
The Christmas robin with Tom Cadwallender
Along the River Lyne with Steve Lowe: part 1
Creative gardening in a strange year
Winter Bees with Paul Hetherington, Buglife
Along the River Lyne with Steve: part two
Bird watching reflections & looking ahead
Tom's jobs for a few weeks & look ahead to 2021
Outro: Carl Cape Band: Auld Lang Syne