Podcasts about hedgehog street

Wildlife in the Garden Show NotesIn this episode we chat with Ed Turpin, Community Wildlife Officer East (Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire) from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT).As concerns over preserving our wildlife become more important, we talk to Ed about his role as a wildlife officer. We chat about the impact of global warming on our precious wildlife habitats and we also touch on the big peat debate and how we need to change our compost buying habits now peat-free alternative composts are becoming available. We also discuss the importance of introducing water into the garden as a magnet to draw in more wildlife, plus a look at how we can help preserve our dwindling hedgehog population. Garden birds, spiders, squirrels, foxes and rabbits come under the wildlife spotlight together with how growing wildflowers can impact on our own gardens in a positive way. Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust is Buckingham Garden Centre's charity of the year and you can chat with a BBOWT representative at our forthcoming Apple and Honey Show Weekend (24th and 26th September, 10am-4pm).Plants Mentioned Birch, Hazel, Field Maple, Dog rose, Wild Privet, Hawthorn, Holly, Brambles, Heathers and GorseAnimal species mentioned Red Kites, Butterflies - Common Blue, Cabbage White and Painted Lady, Grass Snakes.Butterfly and moth friendly plants include Lavender, Sage, Thymes, Primulas, Forget-me-nots, Bugle (Ajuga), Hedera and Stinging Nettles (for caterpillars).Plants rabbits tend to avoid include: Peonies, Hellebores, Foxgloves, Narcissi, Snowdrops, Lavender and RosemaryProducts mentioned: Bird feeders, Squirrel proof feeders and bird food – Niger seed, Bird boxes, Graziers animal deterrent (in store only). Sunflowers, Teasel and Wildflower seeds.BBOWT Actions page - has lots of great activities and tips for making your garden wildlife friendly.BBOWT How to create a mini-pond - Some great tips on creating a small pond in your garden.The Freshwater Habitats Trust - There are some great tips and some quite comprehensive articles on their website which are great for wildlife ponds.Hedgehog Street is a national campaign that is run by the People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES for short) and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS). There is some great information on the website and you can sign up to be a Hedgehog Champion. You can also register hedgehog sightings in your local area which all works towards helping understand how hedgehog populations are looking nationally.Wildlife Gardens worth a visit Notable gardens include Cambridge Botanic Garden, Chartwell House and Garden (Sevenoaks, Kent), Great Dixter (Rye, Sussex), Hidcote Manor (Gloucestershire), Longstock Water Gardens (Hampshire), Lost Gardens of Heligan (Cornwall), Thenford Garden and Arboretum (Banbury, Oxfordshire), and Waddesdon Manor (Buckinghamshire).RHS Wildlife in Gardens adviceWildlife watch for childrenUK top ten birds, latest RSPB Big Bird Watch resultsMusic by Chiltern Music Therapy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Queenie and Chicken discover that a hedgehog is visiting the garden at night. They make the garden "hedgehog-friendly" before Queenie learns the difference between a hedgehog cake and a cake for a hedgehog. Along the way, Little Dazzy Donuts reads three poems on baking and cooking, as well as one from a reader on the gardener's best friend. When evening comes, all three stay up in the hope of seeing the hedgehog!The episode comes with a free PodPack to download from kidspoetryclub.com containing poems, illustrations and activities, as well as a PodSnack video of an illustrated poem in the form of a short YouTube video. You can also read the handy hedgehog guide that Queenie and Chicken used in the episode. Check out the guide, and also learn all about hedgehogs at this wonderful Hedgehog Street site. We love hearing from you! To send your poems and drawings into Kids' Poetry Club, just go to https://www.kidspoetryclub.com/joinin. Who knows, perhaps you will be a star of an upcoming episode.To contact us for any reason, just drop an email to contact@kidspoetryclub.com. Thank you so much for being a part of Kids' Poetry Club!

UK HEDGEHOGS NEED YOU! Since 2000, UK populations of hedgehogs have declined 30% in urban areas and 50% in rural areas. Today’s guest, Hugh Warwick, estimates hedgehog populations have dropped by 90% or more since the second world war. Based on these horrendous figures, we can deduce if we don’t start helping them right away, these beautiful animals could be facing extinction.  That’s where we, as gardeners, come in. Hugh talks about how we can encourage hedgehogs into our gardens and how we can best look after those who decide to share our space. We cover: Encouraging hedgehogs into your garden Supplemental feeding and watering Ensuring hedgehog safety in the garden The importance of creating a network to facilitate hedgehogs’ movements How to identify and deal with poorly hedgehogs   About Hugh Warwick Hugh is an ecologist and author with a particular interest in hedgehogs. He is a spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, runs the Oxfordshire campaign, HedgeOX and is a regular contributor to radio and television. He has written two books about hedgehogs … and much to the distress of his family, has plans for more!   Links: https://www.hughwarwick.com Hugh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hedgehoghugh Link to the video we discussed, where Hugh drills through a perfectly good wall in aid of helping our hedgehogs, a worthy sacrifice!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8joMexoVo38&feature=youtu.be   Hedgehog Street: https://www.hedgehogstreet.org    British Hedgehog Preservation Society Website: https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/hedgehogsociety Telephone 01584 890801 Email info@britishhedgehogs.org.uk   State of Britain’s Hedgehogs 2018 Report: https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/state-britains-hedgehogs-2018/  Hugh’s project the HedgeOX campaign aims to help Oxfordshire’s hedgehogs: Website: https://www.hedgeox.org/?fbclid=IwAR2FJwEaBz4Wejdl5PRWn5R-hFq9b8yUCqWrCSwSOes8_HjMpxTqj3Z4S3E  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hedgeox/ 

In this show we hear from Emily Wilson from Hedgehog Street about how your hedgehog sightings are needed and from local hedgehog enthusiast Jill Priest about how local hedgehogs are fairing and how you can help them as they get ready to hibernate.

Emily Wilson, the Hedgehog Officer from the organisation Hedgehog Street, explains how the need for hedgehog houses is as high now as in the winter and what to do to ensure that you can make just the kind of house that hedgehogs love. John Gardiner of Save Symondshyde tells us about the sink holes recently [...]

Join me in this week's podcast where I discuss how I encourage slug and snail predators into my allotment and vegetable patch. The diary. Each week I share what I have been doing in the garden this last week. This week's task's include Potting on and hardening off Planting out plants A new fence supplied by colour fence And much more. Encouraging slug and snail predators into the garden. In last week's podcast, I spoke of how I deal with slugs and snails. My conclusion was that the best method that I found worked for me was encouraging wildlife into the garden. In this podcast, I talk about how I do this easily and simply. Hedgehogs and birds are great for controlling slug and snail population along with many other forms of wildlife. In this episode, I mention a couple of websites as follows RSPB website for creating wildlife-friendly gardens. Hedgehog Street. An organisation promoting hedgehogs. I also mention about some hedgehog food that I use to leave out for hedgehogs to eat. The type I use can be bought from Amazon by clicking the image below. How do you encourage wildlife into your garden? let me know in the comments .