The Naturalist's Journal: The Naturalist searches for shadows and signs of the awakening
“Whet up yer knife and whistle up yer dogs,
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“Whet up yer knife and whistle up yer dogs,
On Oct. 2 at 11 a.m., the Marshalltown Garden Club will present a program on spring flowering bulbs, especially the less well-known minor bulbs. The speaker is
Spring has teased us this year: she comes, she goes; warm sunny days are followed by high winds, cold rain and even pellets of ice. But the spring flowers persist, starting with those dainty white snowdrops that appear reliably in early March for me....
Gardening writer Richard Wright discusses some of the plants you can use to create colour in the garden in autumn and winter.
2020 was a tough year for everyone. The countryside, our local parks and gardens have been our salvation, nature our anti-depressant. Which is why the Wharfedale Naturalists Society wanted to celebrate the diversity of plant and wildlife here in the dale. Asking its members to join in their first-ever Christmas plant hunt and birding competition. Aiming to end 2020 on a high, looking forward to happier times ahead. The task was to record as many plants in flower (excluding those in gardens) or birds seen either in the garden or countryside over the festive period (starting Saturday, Decem...