The poor weather continues. I’m thankful that at least some of our nesting birds, including the yellowhammer and mistle thrush, have fledged their young and hopefully they are able to find shelter from the gale force winds and occasional torrential rain we are experiencing at the moment! The swallows are certainly having problems negotiating the approach to their front porch nest and I suspect will leave egg-laying for a day or two. The poor weather has meant that I am inclined to work inside a little more and time taken to plan two new borders has been worthwhile, but a day filming for our wildlife gardening DVD has been cancelled until better weather. On the bright side, more and more orchids are appearing in the meadow every day.
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Jenny Steel was a Plant Ecologist at Oxford University before becoming a writer. She has more than 20 years experience of writing about and teaching ecology, natural history and wildlife gardening. She is also a photographer, journalist and former plant nursery owner, and a lecturer and tutor in adult education. She has appeared on a variety of radio and television programmes including Gardener’s World with Alan Titchmarsh, and she presented a series of items on the BBC 2 gardening show, How Does Your Garden Grow. She has worked with and written for a variety of organisations including the Royal Horticultural Society, Natural England, Atropos, Ernest Charles, the Adult Residential Colleges Association (ARCA), Haiths, Usborne Books, Complete Gardens, Oxfordshire County Council, the charity Growing Native and several of the Wildlife Trusts. She is also the Garden Bird Guru for the wild bird food company JustAddBirds of which she was a co-founder. The Emmy Award winning film company Panache Productions are currently making a film about her wildlife garden in South Shropshire. She has written 10 books on wildlife gardening. Her website can be found at www.wildlife-gardening.co.uk and her bird food company at www.JustAddBirds.co.uk
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