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
Summertime
It's mid-summer and the temperature’s rising and so is Tom P’s excitement… we join him on a tour of his raised beds, and flowers and veg…
Tom Cadwallender’s watching the summer skies for swifts and more….and listening to the classic sounds of summer…
We’re at the ‘Love Northumberland’ awards at Alnwick Castle with Steve Lowe…
The big butterfly count is underway and Dr Jamie Wildman is here to help us join in… it’s a wonderful way to help butterflies!
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.
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..
In this episode…
It's mid-summer and the temperature’s rising and so is Tom P’s excitement… we join him on a tour of his raised beds, and flowers and veg…
Tom Cadwallender’s watching the summer skies for swifts and more….and listening to the classic sounds of summer…
We’re at the ‘Love Northumberland’ awards at Alnwick Castle with Steve Lowe…
The big butterfly count begins… and Dr Jamie Wildman is here to help us join in for free… it’s a wonderful way to help butterflies!
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
All coming up… on the Nature Garden Podcast….
Intro and Theme tune: Princess of the Ocean by Carl Cape Band featuring Steve Deegan, Carl Cape and Jamie Robb (fiddle).
Bird song: The blackbird...
Carl Stiansen: The warmth of summer is all around us and Tom’s excited… so today we’re joining him on a tour of his raised beds, and flowers and veg… and I can smell the sensational scent of the sweet peas from here, Tom!
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: The skies are filled with our summertime feathered friends and Tom Cadwallender’s scanning for swifts… and listening for nightjars and warblers… and… the last call of the cuckoo before it departs…
Tom Cadwallender: audio
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Carl Stiansen: We’re on a summertime tour of the garden with Tom P who’s checking his crop protection and the progress of his summer and winter veg, where the aptly named Red Rum bean is living up to its name…
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: Butterflies are a barometer of nature, and as citizens we can assist invaluable science projects like the Big Butterfly Count… Here’s Doctor Jamie Wildman, an Ecologist with Butterfly Conservation… with all you need to know about how to join the count and why it’s so important…
Doctor Jamie Wildman, Butterfly Conservation: audio
Info: And you can find out more about how to help the bigbutterflycount.org or download the app… it’s excellent by the way.
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Carl Stiansen: It’s time for a celebration, I think, and here’s Steve Lowe from the award-winning, oh yes, Creswell Pele Tower who’s been catching up with some of the winners of a very special Northumberland award.
Steve Lowe: 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
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Carl Stiansen: You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology… Doctor Jamie Wildman, from Butterfly Conservation, and Steve Lowe from the Cresswell Pele Tower.
Don’t forget, you can listen back to all of our previous programmes via the Nature Garden Podcast… that’s the Nature Garden Podcast… I’m Carl Stiansen… thanks for listening… and enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature, bye for now.
Audio: The summer sounds of swallows: fades to end