{"id":109338,"date":"2019-07-25T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-garden-jungle-by-dave-goulson-review-gardening-to-save-the-planetby-dave-goulson\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:05:02","slug":"the-garden-jungle-by-dave-goulson-review-gardening-to-save-the-planetby-dave-goulson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-garden-jungle-by-dave-goulson-review-gardening-to-save-the-planetby-dave-goulson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson review \u2013 gardening to save the planetby Dave Goulson"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom ponds to planting \u2026 how to transform your garden into a refuge for threatened flora and faunaOne of the most evocative and powerful slogans of the 1968 Paris revolts was sous les pav\u00e9s, la plage \u2013 beneath the pavement lies the beach. Today in the UK, where more than three quarters of us live in cities, many people have lost touch with the natural world. They have forgotten the earth beneath their feet. Dave Goulson wants to reverse that dangerous trend and reconnect us with the wildlife that lives under our noses, in our gardens and parks: \u201cthe jungle that lurks just outside your back door\u201d.In the last 30 years, Goulson \u2013 a professor of biology who specialises in bumblebee ecology and founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust \u2013 has had six different gardens, from \u201ca pocket-handkerchief rectangle\u201d to his current one, a \u201cslightly unkempt but delightful\u201d two acres. But every garden, large or small, is teeming with life, from the worms to the birds and butterflies. Beginning in the 1970s, Jennifer Owen \u2013 \u201cone of the great heroines of wildlife gardening\u201d \u2013 recorded the plants and creatures living in her little Leicester garden. In 35 years she found 2,673 species. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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