Posts by Janet Heath
Butterfly Transect 2026
Clouded Yellow Summer 2026 saw our first butterfly transect walk in Boston Spa, set up under the auspices and supervision of Butterfly Conservation. This national charity set up a national network of transects in 1976 with the purpose of recording population trends of different butterfly species. There are over 3,000 transects throughout the British Isles,and…
Read MoreBuilding a Log Pile
Log piles provide a home or a refuge for many species: invertebrates; amphibians such as frogs, toads and newts; and small mammals such as hedgehogs, mice, shrews and voles. All of these creatures predate on garden pests. With a rich biodiversity such as this you won’t feel the need to resort to garden chemicals, which disrupt…
Read MoreSay No to Peat
Why Peat has no place in our gardens Peat stores carbon, so digging up peat releases that carbon. A loss of only 5% of UK peatland carbon would be equal to the UK’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Water from our uplands filtered through peat bogs is of a higher quality than water from degraded bogs,…
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