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
Springtime
Hello spring! Tom Pattinson’s getting the pruning gear out but please do consider carefully before you chop… Tom’s here to give us a steer.
Tom Cadwallender’s muckle glad to be back and he’s enjoying woodpeckers and fieldfares at dawn…
And we have an exciting update from the latest dig at Lindisfarne and some amazing new finds…
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P.
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Carl Stiansen: Hello and welcome back to the Nature Garden Podcast, with me, Carl Stiansen, and the Weekending Show Team from Lionheart Radio.
In this episode…
Hello spring!… Tom Pattinson’s getting the pruning gear out but please do consider carefully before you chop…Tom’s here to give us a steer.
Tom Cadwallender’s muckle glad to be back and he’s enjoying woodpeckers and fieldfares at dawn… and swanning around a bit… as always!
And we have an exciting update from the latest dig at Lindisfarne and some amazing new finds…
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
All coming up… on the Nature Garden Podcast….
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Carl Stiansen: Hello and a very merry spring to you! Shrubby structure is an important element to any garden but it isn’t always easy to know what to do to keep everything growing and when it’s best to give things a bit of a trim… well, fear not, help is at hand here, with Tom Pattinson… Hello again, Tom P!
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Spring has truly sprung and the light nights are arriving and Tom Cadwallender’s an excited chap (well, isn’t he always) and he’s been out to catch the birds at dawn including flocks of fieldfares… Welcome back, Tom C!
Tom Cadwallender: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Archaeological digs offer a chance to discover so many things about the past and how we lived… and the digs on Lindisfarne have been revelatory. I caught up with David Petts, Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, at Durham University, for an update on the amazing finds of the DigVentures team on Holy Island.
David Petts: audio
Carl Stiansen: Keeping and improving a garden’s structure can be a bit of an artform but we can all follow some basic rules to keep us and the garden right, and here’s the second part of Tom’s tips for pruning and how and when to cut back clematis.
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Bird watching is a proper passion for Tom Cadwallender and he’s marking the turn of the season with chiff chaffs and observing the migrations of swans…
Tom Cadwallender: audio
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Carl Stiansen: 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
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Carl Stiansen: You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology… and David Petts from Durham University and DigVentures. I’m Carl Stiansen… thanks for listening and enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature, bye for now….