Joff Elphick

If you love wildlife in your garden and want to encourage more take a listen to my chat with wildlife gardening guru Chris Baines who’s award winning book has been fully updated and revised. Go to my website to listen #gardenwildlife #wildlife #gardening

@Jamiewa50042387 The kids loved his book ‘Masquerade’ at bedtime. Seeing how many things they could spot in the pictures. X

An absolutely fantastic gent and so knowledgeable, fairplay I love meeting folk on this job , a golden hare is worth money but it is the story behind its idea of a treasure hunt that is worth more than gold ,i remember him telling me about how he thought of the idea

Fairplay there are treasures in life , a chap driving his Ferrari down into Nailsworth infront of me just now , this rose in Box a minute ago and also Kit Williams i just had a fifteen minute conversation with on his morning walk,about his art and my moss ,both exchanging goodnes

@jackwallington Lost more by lifting than I have by leaving in the ground, Gloucestershire . ( note- not lost any in the ground)

I’m starting to think lifting dahlias is a bit of an unnecessary myth - I never lifted any in London and they were all stronger in the ground. Those we grow in heavy wet clay-loam on an exposed site in Yorkshire survive outside too.

@AdvollyR @GWandShows @Portmeirion I saw you and insisted the family gather around. Best bit of the show. Xx

Well hello!! I'm back on @GWandShows tonight at 8pm. Do come and swan around with me as I explore the beautiful Italian inspired garden at Plas Brondanw, created by Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) architect and designer of @Portmeirion #gardenersworld #gardenhistory #wales

Very happy to announce that my podcast episode with @Kate_Bradbury is now live. We were kindly introduced to each other by @PamAyres another writer and passionate lover of wildlife. The link is in the usual place. Thank you Kate. I wish you every success with the book.

@thorogoodchris1 Ah yes. I have one of those cones. AKA The Widowmaker! ( Not a character from WWW wrestling!😂) .

Big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) produces the world's largest pine cones by mass, reported to reach up to half a metre in length, and weigh 5kg. Wow.

@Kate_Bradbury @KneppWilding I walked out into a nearby meadow last week expecting to hear the thrum of insects. Nothing!! On a positive note I think there’s a spotted fly catcher nesting in the garage Ivy. Let’s hope it can find food for its chicks.

This can’t come soon enough. I thought last year was bad, this year is so much worse. Virtually silent in my garden. Only decent insect numbers I’ve seen this year have been at @KneppWilding

@janeperrone 😂😂😂👏👏👏your logic makes total sense. But only to you!!😂😂

@BnmthPoppy @PamAyres Kitt Williams. Masquerade. Different artist but I can see the similarities.

@PamAyres Pam I think I recognise the style of these beautiful illustrations.....do you remember a treasure hunt with drawings like these - might only have been in the Cotswolds where I lived. Don't know how it spread without social media, but it really 'took off'......

I have no connection with G H Knight, Cirencester, but they sell the most beautiful, different, selection of things connected with writing. I bought this lovely sketchbook and a journal with wide ruling for my big handwriting. I really hope they succeed. ghknight.net

SOUND ON-Hairy footed flower bee making her way into the lime mortar walls of @genusgardenwear HQ.

@jackwallington In my latest podcast episode joffelphick.co.uk/podcast/ I speak to Dick Woods from Finches Friend who has decided to combat the problem of parasite transference on garden bird feeders and has produced several new products that will save a lot of our garden birds from trichomonosis.

There’s growing evidence that feeding birds with feeders creates a hot spot for spreading disease. As far as I’m aware my book A Greener Life was the first gardening publication to say this rather than advise feeding them. Instead stop using pesticides and plant fruiting trees.

@HarrietRycroft 😆😆😆Love it!! He of course denied it!!😆

@HarrietRycroft I am telling everyone I know you!!! Xx

@Andy_Wheatley I bet your Littlewoods catalogue has never received such frenzied attention. 😮

What a start to the year!

@Haggewoods Last two years have been great for bee orchids.

@DaveGoulson Some of the comments here. God forbid we see we see where venison really comes from.

My son saw this fallow deer run over from his bus to school. A quick text to alert me & we now have about 20kg of delicious venison in the freezer. Sad, but waste not want not! This is the most sustainable source of meat...

@MartinFishHort @HeadGardenerLC Not to be confused with my Pot and Cloche podcast. joffelphick.co.uk/podcast/

As promised our new Pots & Trowels Podcast has been launched. A new episode each Sunday with a guest interview, jobs for the week, cookery tips and I’ll also answer some of your gardening questions. buzzsprout.com/2265919/share #gardening #GardeningTwitter #podcasts

@springy_steve A New Zealand flatworm

Oooooh 😳 What’s this on our patio this morning? 🫣

@PamAyres Reminds me of this ‘keep off the grass’ sign.

A bit baffled by the footnote on a new bamboo chopping board:

@AlanEDown Here you go Alan. A typical wall on Scilly.

Now here’s an unusual #tree decoration! Fenders and buoys! I suppose they are better here than loose on the ocean.

@NaomiSlade Haha. Yes, we ended up in some narrow tapering streets in Corfu. I think you might have just got your donkey and cart around the corner.

From a recent trip... Ignore Greek road signs at your peril!