Dunsmore’s Unofficial Trainee
Dunsmore Living Landscape support officer Man-Lan Adams shares her experiences of completing a hands-on City & Guilds qualification to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to commence a…
Dunsmore Living Landscape support officer Man-Lan Adams shares her experiences of completing a hands-on City & Guilds qualification to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to commence a…
Cathy, shepherdess, and her border collie Lady have a strong bond with each other – and with nature. From the moment she owned her first lamb Cathy knew that shepherding was the life for her;…
Jessica-Jane Applegate MBE is a Paralympic and World Champion swimmer. She spends so much time training and rushing around from one venue to another, her favourite place is her garden. Here she…
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
A 'weed' of cultivated and disturbed ground, Round-leaved fluellen is a trailing plant with round leaves and yellow flowers that appear over summer.
A pale member of the violet family sometimes known as ‘milk violet’, the fen violet has a delicate and unassuming appearance. A real specialist of the wetland habitat, this species has seen a…
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Juliet Sargeant was first inspired by nature as a child: when she’s working, her mind often wanders back to playing in the woods with her friends.
She left a career in medicine to train as…