To celebrate National Nestbox Week, we are talking about a fantastic book by the British Trust for Ornithology and discussing the wildlife wonder-plant that is our native Ivy. We cover some of the latest news and upcoming events too.
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Front Gardens:
An increase in front garden greenery will boost wellbeing and help the environment / RHS Gardening
Front gardens: designing / RHS Gardening
10 easy plants for driveways / RHS Gardening
Front gardens: permeable paving / RHS Gardening
Greening Great Britain / RHS Gardening
Cats:
Book club:
Nestboxes: Your Complete Guide | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology
Nestboxes: Your Complete Guide | NHBS Academic & Professional Books
Nestboxes: Your Complete Guide from Summerfield Books
Next month’s book:
ISBN 9781472956057
Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything from Summerfield Books
Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything | NHBS Good Reads
Ivy
Hedera helix | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)
Oxford University Plants 400: Hedera helix
Historical information from Flora Britannica Flora Britannica - the definative new guide to wild flowers, plants and trees | Richard Mabey | Nature Writer, Author & Journalist
RHS Hedera: The Complete Guide - Books from the RHS Plants, shrubs & trees
Hedera helix | BSBI Species Accounts
Ivy on trees, walls and buildings:
Ivy-clad walls keep homes cool during summer, RHS research shows / RHS Gardening
Ivy on trees and as a ground cover weed / RHS Gardening
Controlling ivy within domestic façade greening (reading.ac.uk)
Microsoft Word - Ivy report December_verViles.docx (ox.ac.uk)
Invertebrates associated with Ivy:
Swallow-tailed Moth (butterfly-conservation.org)
UK Butterflies - Holly Blue - Celastrina argiolus
Thanks to these Twitterers for their help with ladybirds
@HWABpodcast @Coleopterist @rockwolf74 @RichardComont
Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 | UK Beetle Recording (coleoptera.org.uk)
Adalia bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) | UK Beetle Recording (coleoptera.org.uk)
Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773) | UK Beetle Recording (coleoptera.org.uk)
Stethorus punctillum (Weise, 1891) | UK Beetle Recording (coleoptera.org.uk)
Scymnus interruptus (Goeze, 1777) | UK Beetle Recording (coleoptera.org.uk)
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