Helens Naturescapes

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27/09/2017

Autumn is upon us again. A busy time for gardeners and wildlife alike! I have time available to help you in your garden with fruit bush / tree pruning, planting and planting advice, general garden care and maintenance.

07/02/2015

This talk might be of interest to our followers. Welcome to all those new people who have liked this page. We currently have small groups of Ivybridge residents developing ideas to encourage cycling, trying to develop renewable energy projects, wanting to develop a community veg garden in the town and organising some fun social events to help bring people together. We meet about once a month in a local venue to discuss and plan ideas so please keep an eye on this page and join in if you can. Together we can do more.x

21/01/2015

It’s competition time! As part of the Big Garden this year we’re asking how often you see other wildlife, including badgers, squirrels, deer & hedgehogs in your garden, park or local area.

To celebrate we’ve got a Hogilo hedgehog house to give away today! Simply like & share this post to be in with a chance of winning.

More details here: http://on.fb.me/1yHZUxY

19/01/2015

Plans to build new houses in an old quarry in Plymouth, could push a Critically Endangered spider, the Horrid ground weaver (Nothophantes horridus), even closer to extinction. We only have one week left to make sure the planning inspectorate know how critical this site is to the spider's survival. T…

02/10/2014

Yipee, what excellent news!

Buglife are creating new areas of wildflower meadow after receiving a grant from the Langage Landscape Fund. This community project will provide just over 2 hectares of new meadow

21/09/2014

My vegetable plot this year. Lots of vetables, lots of colour and lots of pollinators buzzing about. Quite proud of it this year.

18/09/2014

Had a brilliant training day today at Thornhayes Nursery. A day about 'designigning with trees'. Come back feeling all inspired after having my head filled with useful information and ideas by the hugely knowledgeable Kevin Croucher.

03/09/2014

PL:21 Transition Initiative Ivybridge, Devon Back to List Your story Encouraging and enabling the local community to lead more sustainable lifestyles, to become more self reliant and be less wasteful. Group introduction PL:21 grew out of another environmental group operating in the town and gained i…

03/07/2014

27/06/2014

This week is National Insect Week and in celebration we are offering a year’s FREE membership to the first 50 members to sign up by direct debit using the code NIW100 You can join by following this link http://butrfli.es/NIW2014

We love butterflies and moths, but what's your favourite insect and why? Join in the fun at http://nationalinsectweek.co.uk

08/06/2014

Jane's garden 2 years after I designed, built (with the help of Michael Prior) and planted it. It's all now well established, especially the meadow which has required some controlling. Jane has become a gardener and put her own additions into the planting schemes which is brilliant. All looking good (even if I say it myself).

04/06/2014

National outreach learning programme - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Promoting UK native plants & fungi

04/06/2014

PL:21 Vegetable garden design mark 2. The first one got a great response (other than the cost), but would apparently require a structural engineer to confirm the wall next to the path would be strong enough to support the build. Silly me! I thought a 4 ft wall supporting a youth centre and the ground it is on would take some more bricks and soil, but apparently that's not necessarily the case, so here is the revised design with a more achievable budget. We're going to need lots of help, and lots of oil drums!

03/06/2014

Someone has undone my guerilla gardening! All the herbs I planted in the big planter at the entrance to Glanvilles mill have been removed and replaced with bedding plants! Hope they didn't throw them away, there's numerous places in Ivybridge that they could brighten up. Strawberries have been left though. :/

22/05/2014

A lovely dose of cuteness

Here's some daily adorable. Shall I make it worse? Baby hedgehogs are known as hedgehoglets.

Even worse? Here's a video of an albino hedgehog snoring: http://bit.ly/RdDfrQ

22/05/2014

More guerrilla gardening this evening in an attempt to cheer Ivybridge up abit. Feels ever so mischievous! Could become a habit. Let me know if you notice where I've been.

09/05/2014

Preparing for some guerilla gardening. Look out!

08/05/2014

Is that better?

08/05/2014

So here it is, the design for the PL21 Community Vegetable Plot; designed to reform the weedy area around the Ivybridge Youth Building, overlooking the playpark.

01/05/2014

Am trying to sort out my adverts and need a nice short and catchy description of what I do. Something along the lines of :- 'Creating habitats, increasing diversity and making beautiful places to be', or 'Anybody can have a rotary washing line and decking, it takes a special garden to have nature'. Any ideas would be much appreciated as I'm crap at this!

01/05/2014

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