This episode we host our first ever guest. Author and RHS Digital Features Editor Gareth Richards gives us a tour around his allotment and talks us through what allotmenteers can do for wildlife. We also talk about Nettles, which whether friend or foe to the gardener are great resource for the birds and the bees!
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Gareth Richards
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
Weeds: The Beauty and Uses of 50 Vagabond Plants
ISBN: 9781787394643
Weeds: Fifty untamed and beautiful vagabond plants from Summerfield Books
Plants discussed
Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta. (wildfooduk.com)
Ugni molinae | Chilean guava/RHS Gardening
Phacelia tanacetifolia | fiddleneck/RHS Gardening
Claytonia perfoliata - BBC Gardeners' World Magazine (gardenersworld.com)
Narcissus 'Geranium' (8) | daffodil 'Geranium'/RHS Gardening
Orach, Red - Atripex hortensis - Buy plants from Norfolk Herbs
Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) (plantlife.org.uk)
Leptospermum scoparium 'Red Damask' (d) | tea tree 'Red Damask'/RHS Gardening
Nettles
Urtica dioica and U. galeopsifolia | BSBI Species Accounts
Urtica dioica | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora (brc.ac.uk)
Stinging nettle | The Wildlife Trusts
Plantlife :: Nettle (stinging)
Five Amazing Things You May Not Know About Nettles (plantlife.org.uk)
BRC - Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Peacock (butterfly-conservation.org)
Comma (butterfly-conservation.org)
Ep 9. Interview: Gareth Richards and Nettles