Homes for bees
Rowena Millar, Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Roving Wildlife Reporter, has been spotting bees this week. You can make a home for bumblebees and use this helpful guide to identify the bees in your…
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What’s under that pot?
This morning I did a bit of garden exploration, and it’s a mini-jungle out there. Why not give it a go yourself, either by yourself or with children, and we can compare notes and find out more.…
A garden for hedgehogs in spring
One of the highlights of last summer for me was regularly finding a hedgehog (which I imaginatively called Hedgey) and a larger hedgehog (Hodge) in our garden late on summer evenings.
Don't over do it!
If you’re cooped up at home and have a garden, I don’t blame you for thinking about tidying and getting out the strimmer and hedge trimmer. You’ll want to give the whole outdoor space a spruce-up…
Helpful, healing herbs
Herbs have grown in wild places for millennia, often thriving where other plants struggle to get a foothold. There is surely a herb for every home in Cornwall (windowsills and doorsteps included…
Cornwall leads the way with Your Shore Network
Rowena Millar, Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Roving Wildlife Reporter headed to the Your Shore Network's annual conference on Saturday. Here's her account of how the day unfolded...
Kilminorth Woods, Looe, part 1 – a guided walk
November 2019 has been Kilminorth-themed for me, with a guided tour of the woods on 8th and a practical activity (forgoing Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s AGM), to benefit local dormice on 16th.