This episode we cover the news and take a detailed look at a range of garden products called biological controls. Rather than spending money, we recommend improving your range of garden habitats as the best way to deal with garden pests! We also talk about the beautiful, billowing wildflower Cow Parsley, known in botanical Latin as Anthriscus sylvestris.
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Every Flower Counts | Plantlife
International Compost Awareness Week (compostfoundation.org)
Sales of peat compost to gardeners to be banned from 2024 | Climate change | The Guardian
Botanical mystery
Biological controls
Biological control in the home garden / RHS Gardening
Beneficial insects and bugs / RHS Gardening
Beneficial insects | www.gardenorganic.org.uk
Nematodes | www.gardenorganic.org.uk
Parasitica – ChrisR (chrisraper.org.uk)
Cold tolerance of the predatory ladybird Cryptolaemus montrouzieri | SpringerLink
(PDF) Application of slug-parasitic nematodes (researchgate.net)
Identifying British Slugs v 3.1 iv2018_0.pdf (wildlifebcn.org)
Cow Parsely
Anthriscus sylvestris | cow parsley/RHS Gardening
Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing' | cow parsley 'Ravenswing'/RHS Gardening
Anthriscus sylvestris | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)
The Biology of Canadian Weeds. 111. Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm (weedinfo.ca)
Cow parsley | The Wildlife Trusts
Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) - Woodland Trust
Cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) (plantlife.org.uk)
Book Club
Do Bees Need Weeds
ISBN: 9781784727147
RHS Do Bees Need Weeds - Books from the RHS Garden Design
RHS Do Bees Need Weeds | NHBS Field Guides & Natural History
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