The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes

Reflections & resolutions

January 09, 2022 The Weekending Show Season 4 Episode 6
The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife & nature notes
Reflections & resolutions
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We’re reflecting on a year where so much has happened… 

Tom Pattinson is looking back through the seasons and successes in the garden…

Tom Cadwallender’s looking back and forwards to some amazing birding highlights.

And Steve Lowe’s thinking about gifts we can give at any time to help ourselves and the planet in 2022…

Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…

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

In this episode… 

We’re reflecting on a year where so much has happened… 

Tom Pattinson is looking back through the seasons and successes in the garden…

Tom Cadwallender’s looking back and forwards to some amazing birding highlights.

And Steve Lowe’s thinking about gifts we can give at any time to help ourselves and the planet in 2022…

Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…

Carl:
00:01:30:

It’s been quite a year! A year where gardening, wildlife and the environment seem to have moved so much closer to our hearts and minds… … and it’s been a year when one of our correspondents became a bit of a star on national media… and I’m not surprised!

So in this Old year, New Year resolution type show, let’s begin with Tom Pattinson’s report on this year’s gardening…

Tom Pattinson:

Carl: 00:07:05 
And in our reflective 2021 into 2022 programme, Tom Cadwallender is having a glass half full moment as he reflects on some of the birding events that have happened… but it’s not all sweetness and light… his report contains the good and the bad… and the downright ugly… but he’s still positive, well… isn’t he always!

Tom Cadwallender, British Trust for Ornithology:

Carl: 00:15:00   
Musical interlude with Shipcote and Friends: music track: Canada Snow.

Tom Pattinson:

Carl: 00:18:42   
Tom’s looking ahead to the gardening year and how to make things better. Here’s Tom with a few positive and inspiring resolutions…

Carl: 00:25:12   
Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust has been considering some gifts which could actually stand you in very good stead for the New Year… giving your time could be a genius thing to do…

Steve Lowe:

Carl: 00:27:30
Other charities and organisations exist to give your time or money to… but please do get involved, there are so many benefits to volunteering, not least here with Lionheart Radio!

…And… so …to the sound of wor blackbird… here’s Tom with some things to be getting on with in the garden…

 Tom Pattinson:

Carl: Outro: 00:32:20:
And… with the familiar sound of Auld Lang Syne by our very own Carl Cape Band playing us out, it is time for us to say ta-ra for now… as we take our winter break.

And 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… and we’ll be back for springtime so until then, bye for now and we wish you a happy New Year. 

Intro & music: Carl Cape Band: Princess of the Ocean: feat. Carl Cape, Jamie Robb and Steve Deegan
Garden reflections #1
Birding reflections
Musical interlude: Canada Snow by Shipcote & Friends.
Gardening resolutions with Tom Pattinson
Nature inspires & giving your time
Jobs for the week in the garden with Tom Pattinson
Outro and Auld Lang Syne by the Carl Cape Band