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A wild allotment in the city. Growing food and encouraging wild life.

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

A resounding YES!!!

[Jack Wallington @jackwallington]

Turf it out: is it time to say goodbye to artificial grass? https://t.co/etEKzvWHyo

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

This is wonderful, we should be encouraging more lawns to meadows this summer 👏👏

[Simon Leadbeater🍃💚🍃 HerbiⓋore & sheep keeper @OurSacredGrove]

Cambridge University's King's College Chapel lawn to become meadow https://t.co/JcSobxi7qj

[Morethanweeds @morethanweeds]

Wall flora is easy to overlook, but rather beautiful when observed in close-up... #urbannature #morethanweeds

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

@dunnjons @botany_beck @thenewgalaxy @joshual951 @fungi_flowers @Matt_Greenwings @botanicalmartin @LeifBersweden @obfuscans3 @SteveTandy3 @scotfot Wildlife twitter is the best twitter💚💚💚

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

Awesome sign of a haunted cottage!

[Glengarriff Woods NR @GlengarriffWood]

Lesser horseshoe bats hibernating in an old cottage find some very quirky places to hang out! 1/4 #lampshade #hibernation #bats #monitoring

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

I got some lungwort from the last Sheffield #plantswap. Very pleased to hear how good they are for bees, I'll have to keep an eye out for hairy footed bees!

[My Wildlife Allotment @Nadinemi13]

Lungwort (Pulmonaria) is starting to flower now. This is one of the best plants to attract Hairy-footed flower bees (Anthophora plumipes) in early spring, the females are black, the males are brown. Bee flies (Bombylius) really like the flowers as well. #pollinators

[My Wildlife Allotment @Nadinemi13]

Lungwort (Pulmonaria) is starting to flower now. This is one of the best plants to attract Hairy-footed flower bees (Anthophora plumipes) in early spring, the females are black, the males are brown. Bee flies (Bombylius) really like the flowers as well. #pollinators

[The Radacast - The Scientific Forager podcast @RadacastPodcast]

“Waterfowl will nest on the ground among a stand of cattails, while marsh wrens, yellow-headed blackbirds, and redwing blackbirds in their own turn will build woven nests between the leaves and stems, well above the water.” Photo by Thayne Tuason.

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

If you're looking for something new to grow for #pollinators this year, do please consider Wild Mignonette (Reseda lutea). It was stunning last year alongside Nepeta & Cerinthe on our allotment, flowered for months, and was an absolute magnet for short tongued solitary #bees!

[Morethanweeds @morethanweeds]

What a "Zéro phyto" (no pesticide) town in France can look like. "Weeds" are left to grow and residents are encouraged to sow suitable plants along walls (poppy, sunflower, hollyhock). If pavement plants don't pose safety risks, there is little reason to spray them #morethanweeds

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Spare a thought for the Bramble Cay melomys, which last year became the first mammal declared extinct due to human-caused #climatechange. Lost forever, on our watch. We should be saying 'never again'. Let's ramp up #climateaction now 🌏

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

Can't tell you how many gardeners I meet who tell me they don't know their wild flowers which seems such a sad state of affairs. We should all be much more familiar with our native flora. Well done #wildflowerhour

[wildflowerhour @wildflower_hour]

Well, this is tremendously exciting! It has just been confirmed that #Wildflowerhour will be featuring as a part of @B_Strawbridge lovely story on Countryfile! So exciting and thank you so much Brigit for mentioning us and also to @BBCCountryfile! Sunday 23 February 6.10pm 🌿🌸😄

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

Let it grow, let it grow.....!

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

With nature in big trouble, here's an easy way for councils to save wildlife and save money too. White clover is a great food source for bumblebees and other pollinating insects. So this year, don't relentlessly mow it or spray it. Just let it grow! 🐝

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

This exactly what healthy hedges look like!
#hedges #hedgerows #hedgelife

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

@community_plot That's great. I'm really lucky to have hawthorn hedges all around my allotment and they are a veritable hive of activity as well as being impressively impermeable to anyone who values their skin!

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

100% YES! I visited the North Yorks coast and the hedgerowed fields were full of chattering life whilst the fences were completely silent. Such a contrast. Such and underappreciated habitat.

[thewildplot @thewildplot]

@morethanweeds @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour @LNHS_Botany Good find! It is in the walls of my parents' garden in Derbyshire but I most associate it with squeezing into damp stone walls in North wales.

[Jack Wallington @jackwallington]

How wonderful is this! It looks straight out the pages of gardening trends article, thanks Jayne! 😍

[Gervase Evans @Gsharptools]

This image was sent to me with explanation that the keeper forgot to put the frames in so bees built as they felt fit. Airflow/temp regulation!
Bees know best. A maze Zing. Beautiful
#BeekeepersHour