Dr Lorraine Field

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

@GWmag Our bees are all over ours!

Show us your alliums by adding a photo to the thread, and we'll share a selection of our favourites next week!

Amazing light in the garden this afternoon. Self-seeded wild poppy. #WonderfulNature #Garden 🌼 @Muttley1968A @Nottswildlife @B_Strawbridge

Happy Bank Holiday weekend! Lovely weather, isn't it?🌞 Unless you're a nocturnal animal who has to sleep all through the hot day, and wake at night to find no water. No puddles. No kind dishes. Unseen. Unthought of. Just the tantalising smell of water from a pond you may drown in, or a drain you may get trapped in. Or a stagnant, dirty old birdbath you may get fatal fluke from. Hedgehogs need to drink a lot of water to stay healthy. Please provide clean, fresh, safe, ground level water for our precious wildlife each evening. Tap water is best. Pop a dish or two out tonight. Keep it clean. Keep it full. Keep it saving lives.❤️‍🩹

The Carder bees seem to have a preference for the Nectaroscordum siculum #TheBuzzClub #Bumblebees

Bumbles out in force today 🐝 with pollen sacks absolutely full. One little lady probably enjoying our oriental poppies (black pollen sacks) way too much! Now enjoying nectar in the alliums @The_Buzz_Club @BumblebeeTrust @B_Strawbridge @LFi48347 #Bumbling #BuzzClub

After last year's success of the tunnel & feeding station, our prickly friends return 🦔😃. But now with the addition of a hog-house, we have a resident 🦔 😲 @LFi48347 @HedgehogCabin @Nottswildlife #Hedgehogs @Prickles_Paws @B_Strawbridge 😃😃

@annemor20303239 @pricklelodge I agree. Mine are demolishing every scrap - different to last year when some was left each night...

@pricklelodge All my food is going at the moment , they must really need it (in my garden anyway) so sad to think they're searching for non existent food 😞

If I have one ask of anyone that can help. PLEASE provide food and water for these precious creatures. This poor boy at just 385g found out in the day should be twice his weight - just look at the shape of his body. My heart breaks for this endangered species 😢 #hedgehog

@B_Strawbridge Lovely Bridget!

A short clip of our garden - now bursting with life and buzzing with bees & other insects! I thought I'd make a few longer videos about what we’ve planted, the pond, who hangs out under the corrugated iron at the top of the garden… Might these be of interest, do you think?

@HedgehogCabin @Muttley1968A Thanks Pauly - and for all your advice over winter!

@LFi48347 @Muttley1968A Woohoooo! And what a lucky boy he is, having you and your life-saving food and clean water to return to.🥰 Well done, and thank you for being a loving guardian and reliable provider for these precious visitors.❤️

So thrilled, our regular hedgehog has finally reappeared after winter!

@IanTeresaMoss Love an epimedium!

A couple of Epimedium enjoying the Spring sunshine.. Delightfully delicate flowers standing above beautiful bronzed foliage. Epimedium 'Koki' and Epimedium 'Satsuma'

A busy day in the garden, Red Mason bees courting & Early Bumblebee (on epimedium). And to top it all, our two courting Robins have given us a 2nd clutch 🪺 in our nest box. We couldn't be happier 😃 @LFi48347 @Nottswildlife @The_Buzz_Club @BumblebeeTrust @B_Strawbridge

@B_Strawbridge Gorgeous Bridgit! Fingers crossed for residents soon!

We have a healthy population on House Sparrows in our village... many of whom nest in the eaves of our roof. They're most welcome, but I'm hoping some of them might also take up residence in this very beautiful three-storey nesting box my husband made for me last week!

@Yarrowman1 @WriterHannahBT Morning Yarrow & Hannah. Our #FirstBirdOfTheDay was our Robin and one of the fledged little ones hiding under our Fatsima Japonica. 🪹😃♥️

Garden is full of colour, and so far, survived the high winds! #sixonsaturday #mygarden

@GardenBrocante The anenomes have been wonderful this spring - they seem to have thrived on the wet winter!

Anemones are fascinating flowers!

Wonderful Ruddington market is back today! Fantastic fresh fish and new today, the fruit and veg stall has Hambleton bread! #Ruddington, @RUDDINGTON_info @RuddingtonCA

@B_Strawbridge Thats brilliant! Still waiting here...

Just been up to top-up the food in our hedgehog feeding station, and look who I found when I lifted the lid... Yippee for this and every other #hedgehog who has made it through this wet soggy winter! 🦔

@arealmofwonder Got to be Snerdle!

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