Sheffield Open Wildlife Gardens

Hello Twitter 🙂. At Sheffield Open Wildlife Gardens we’re all about sharing the joy of gardening for wildlife with others to spread the word. There will be 🌸🍀🌳, 🐝 🐛 🪱 and sometimes 🍰😁. Find out how to share your garden here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This year Fran Halsall has taken on Sheffield Open Wildlife Gardens and is looking to see whether there is interest from people opening their gardens in August and September. You can register your interest here: forms.gle/Rq7Yg8vP5iHpV1…

It’s launch day! From now until 12pm on the 27th April, you can donate to our Hedgehog Friendly Schools campaign via the @BigGive #GreenMatchFund & every £1 you give will be DOUBLED. Give children the opportunity to help save a species! 🔗bit.ly/3ohMpci

Today Elon took my Blue Tick away. As an experiment to see if my reach has been affected, can you please do me a favour?🙏 If you follow me, and you see this tweet, can you please retweet it.♥️ To make it worth sharing, here's my photo of a rare Black Redstart after a fly🐦

@roz_davies @Green_Estate @TheKingsAwards Great work Roz (and team!)

If anyone missed this last night… joyous! bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

A final reminder for our last open garden of the summer in Hillsborough tomorrow: a family-friendly garden with swift, insect and hedgehog habitat, and a beautiful wildlife pond facebook.com/events/s/12-ch…. Hope to see people there🙂

Our last open wildlife garden of the summer takes place this Sunday, hopefully with some swift sightings amongst the rest of the wildlife. £1 entry donation for Cat Ching.

Visitors welcome if it’s raining - ring at the front or knock at the back door if no-one’s outside!

2/2 please note there are stairs to enter and in the garden, though fewer stairs by entering via the Stainton Rd entrance of Bingham Park

1/2 Open again today, an “entry level” wildlife garden with Belfast sink pond, native and non-native planting for pollinators and lots of lessons on things that haven’t quite worked, as well as things that have! 117 Rustlings Rd, 11-3 facebook.com/events/s/117-r…

Very important in the next few days👇

Are you counting? Love the #BigButterflyCount

Not quite gardening, but a great Sheffield wildlife story

Very excited to visit this garden in Walkley tomorrow… from sterile plastic lawn to emerging wildlife haven with loads of different features - ponds, owl houses, hedgehog staircases and more... Saturday 16th, 2-4, 96 Carr Road, Walkley, S6 2WZ youtu.be/CRdcApkD8s0

Fascinating, inspiring and relaxing tour of three gardens and an orchard in Wharncliffside and Ewden this afternoon with so many butterflies we never see on our suburban part of the city. Lots of ideas for doing things a bit differently and taking things a bit wilder.

We’re very excited to be heading out to this later - a beautiful sunny day so hoping for an abundance of butterflies and insects💚

Tomorrow looks like an amazing day for a garden tour👇

@Therosesociety2 Rosa A Simple Life

@WildOpenShef A beautiful single rose!

It’s #RoseWednesday we’d love to see your wildlife loving your roses. Bees (and other insects) love this rose as much as us.

@Tweedyteacup Love bees sleeping in flowers❤️

@WildOpenShef This one is having a hap bee time 💗

@SusanneCraw Mmm, mead. I only seem to get this on holiday and I’ve found a few I love (and can’t remember names of) and some that excite me less. Any recommendations?