Ep 4. Wildlife Gardening and Dogwood

It's about time we gave a general background to Wildlife Gardening! Plus, we have a look at one of our favourite native shrubs Cornus sanguinea, also known as the Dogwood.

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Websites for Wildlife Gardeners

Plants we mentioned

• Crocus mixed

• Iris reticulata

• Night stocks - Matthiola longipetala subsp. bicornis

• Night phlox - Zaluzianskya ovata

• Fuscia sp.

• Clover - Trifolium repens

• Berberis

• Ceanothus

• Ribes sanguineum

• Willow

• Echinacea purpurea

• Acid loving plants

  • Skimmia japonica

  • Camelia japonica

  • Heather

  • Rhododendron sp.

News

Hedge your bets with ‘super plant’ to fight air pollution / RHS Gardening

Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes - Tew - - Journal of Ecology - Wiley Online Library

Dogwood

Biological Flora of Central Europe: Cornus sanguinea L. - ScienceDirect

Cornus sanguinea | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)

Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) - British Trees - Woodland Trust

Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) | Wytham Woods (ox.ac.uk)

Cuttings: hardwood / RHS Gardening

Buy dogwood Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire' (rhsplants.co.uk)

Cornus sanguinea 'Magic Flame' | dogwood 'Magic Flame'/RHS Gardening

Cornus sanguinea 'Anny's Winter Orange' | dogwood 'Anny's Winter Orange'/RHS Gardening

Andrena cineraria : Ashy Mining Bee | NBN Atlas

Pellucid Fly | NatureSpot

What is wildlife gardening?

RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening: Amazon.co.uk: Baines, Chris: 9780711237919: Books

The Making of a Wildlife Garden - part one (of two) - YouTube

The Making of a Wildlife Garden - part two - YouTube

Biodiversity | Great Dixter

What to do with autumn leaves – Ellies Wellies Organic Gardening

The projects - Back From The Brink (naturebftb.co.uk)

Drone-fly | National Insect Week

Next month’s book:

ISBN 9781472956057

Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything from Summerfield Books

Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything | NHBS Good Reads

Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything (The Wildlife Trusts) Kate Bradbury: Bloomsbury Wildlife

Websites for Wildlife Gardeners

https://ellieswellies.com/2021/03/02/websites-useful-to-wildlife-gardeners/