{"id":39319,"date":"2016-12-31T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alys-fowler-garden-looking-a-bit-messy-good-let-it-stay-like-that-until-spring\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T11:08:18","slug":"alys-fowler-garden-looking-a-bit-messy-good-let-it-stay-like-that-until-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alys-fowler-garden-looking-a-bit-messy-good-let-it-stay-like-that-until-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Alys Fowler: garden looking a bit messy? Good \u2013 let it stay like that until spring"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA tidy winter garden is a garden that\u2019s no home to butterflies, moths and all the other insects that need our help Next year, I resolve to tidy up less. And\u00a0I wish the same for you, particularly in your garden, particularly at this moment. I recently went to a fantastic conference by The Open Air Laboratories Network, which encourages people to get in touch with nature by enabling them to explore and study their local environment through citizen science. It was inspiring and sobering: biodiversity is without doubt in decline.I spoke to a butterfly conservationist about her work with farms, in the countryside and in her own garden. She told me that when she has to explain to people why her garden looks a mess, she says, \u201cIt\u2019s for the butterflies\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Alys Fowler: garden looking a bit messy? Good \u2013 let it stay like that until spring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tidy winter garden is a garden that\u2019s no home to butterflies, moths and all...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-aeb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131088,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bees-get-all-the-credit-slugs-and-snails-among-2023-chelsea-flower-show-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":39319,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Bees get all the credit\u2019: slugs and snails among 2023 Chelsea flower show stars","date":"October 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Royal Entomological Society to sponsor garden in effort to show importance of less glamorous creepy-crawliesStag beetles and hornets will be among the stars of Chelsea flower show next year as horticulturalists encourage people to welcome invertebrates into the garden.Bumblebees and butterflies tend to get a lot of press, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":121452,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-tidy-up-an-unruly-garden-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":39319,"position":1},"title":"How to tidy up an unruly garden | Alys Fowler","date":"August 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A little judicious pruning and deadleafing goes a long way towards treating weather-battered plants Rain, wind, sun, rain, wind, sun: this summer\u2019s varied weather has led to a lot of lank growth, which means things are flopping all over the place, or running amok. 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