The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife and nature notes
A trip down the garden path and country lane with nature enthusiasts and gardeners chatting about the flowers and trees, and the birds and the bees and more.
The Nature Garden: gardening, wildlife and nature notes
Wise words & wading birds
Tom Pattinson’s checking some of the more common specimens in our gardens and asking: how well do you know them?
Tom Cadwallender is out with the waders and rising tides… and he’s looking back on the early years of his birding on the Northumberland coast…
And we’ve got 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.
Thanks for joining us on a canny wee wander down the garden path and country lane… with the birds and the bees, and the flowers and trees… and it’s a chance to hear some great stories from the past and present…
In this episode…
Tom Pattinson’s checking some of the more common specimens in our gardens and asking: how well do you know them?
Tom Cadwallender is out with the waders and rising tides… and he’s looking back on the early years of his birding on the Northumberland coast…
And we’ve got some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
All coming up… on the Nature Garden Podcast….
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Carl Stiansen: Plants hold many mysteries within their multitude of forms and their mechanisms to protect and survive… and Tom Pattinson’s taking a closer look at some of the plants in our gardens and lanes, and at some of their challenging characteristics.
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Tom Cadwallender’s out and about this week counting wading birds down on the beautiful Alnmouth estuary, and he’s contemplating the change in ornithological seasons, and the merits of full moons and rising tides.
Tom Cadwallender: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Now, let’s go back to Tom P who’s taking care in the garden and asking how well do you know your plants… and there’s something for us all to learn here…
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Tom Cadwallender’s going back to his roots and reminiscing on the old mining pond habitats of his youth and the joys of the Ashington bus… and shanks’s pony on some classic coastal walks.
Tom Cadwallender: audio
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And so…to the sound of wor blackbird… here’s Tom with some things to be getting on with in the garden…
Tom Pattinson: audio: Jobs for the Week
Outro: Carl Stiansen: You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology…
And a big thanks to our other correspondents over the last season of programmes: Steve Lowe from the Northumberland Rivers Trust and Cresswell Pele Tower… and John Knox and Dean Smith from the Alnwick Poison Garden.
We’re taking a break now for summer and we’ll be back in September with more nature, gardening and heritage reports from Northumberland and beyond.
I’m Carl Stiansen… thanks for listening and enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature, bye for now.