The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes

From little acorns...

November 17, 2021 The Weekending Show Season 4 Episode 3
The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes
From little acorns...
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Tom Pattinson is getting ready for National Tree Week and looking at the ecological wonder of trees… 

Can you imagine a hundred thousand birds flying together in amazing synchronous patterns? Tom Cadwallender reports from starling HQ at the Somerset Levels.

And we’re going retro …. as Steve Lowe delves into the world of period fashion and flintlocks…

Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…

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

Hello and welcome to the Weekending Show with me, Carl Stiansen, and the Weekending Team. 

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

Tom Pattinson is getting ready for National Tree Week and looking at the ecological wonder of trees… 

Can you imagine a hundred thousand birds flying together in amazing synchronous patterns? Tom Cadwallender reports from starling HQ at the Somerset Levels.

And we’re going retro …. as Steve Lowe delves into the world of period fashion and flintlocks…

Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P… All coming up on Nature Garden Podcast….  

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Theme tune: Princess of the Ocean by Carl Cape Band featuring Steve Deegan, Carl Cape and Jamie Robb (fiddle).

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Carl: 00:01:30

National Tree Week is the UK’s largest annual tree celebration, marking the start of the winter tree planting season (November to March each year). …. And It’s a chance to bring people together to celebrate and plant trees across the country… here’s Tom to tell us more…
Tom Pattinson:

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Carl: 00:06:47

Tom Cadwallender (British Trust for Ornithology)
The magical murmurations of starlings are a breathtaking sight… one of the wonders of the natural world… 

Tom Cadwallender (British Trust for Ornithology) has been to Somerset to watch their aerial gymnastics, and to see the how cattle egrets and livestock live together…

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Carl: 00:13:19

Tom’s a big fan of trees and shrubs which look great in the garden and can help to save the planet… We can ALL play a part and plant something… but there are so many choices…aren’t there? …. Here’s Tom to help us to see the wood for the trees…

Tom Pattinson:

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Carl: 00:19:20

Restoring buildings is a painstaking job and, once the main part is completed, bringing them to life to show and tell our heritage can really help to make them attractive places to visit… Steve Lowe’s been chatting to one of the period characters of the Cresswell Pele Tower.

Steve Lowe, Cresswell Pele Tower:

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Carl:  00:24:17   
Here’s Tom with some things to be getting on with in the garden… 

Tom Pattinson:

Carl: 00:30:09
Theme outro >>>>  You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology; and Steve Lowe from The Northumberland Rivers Trust and Cresswell Pele Tower. I’m Carl Stiansen and, don’t forget, you can listen back to all the previous reports we’ve done on the Nature Garden Podcast… that’s the Nature Garden Podcast… enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature… bye for now. 

Intro and music: Carl Cape Band: Princess of the Ocean featuring Carl Cape, Jamie Robb and Steve Deegan
National Tree Week
Starlings over Somerset
Trees and shrubs - planet savers!
Retro style at the Pele Tower
Gardening jobs for the week
Outro