About this website and its author
I set up the website several years ago originally to provide information for visitors to our garden open days when we lived in London, where we developed a wildlife-friendly garden. Because of growing interest in wildlife gardening, and comments from some visitors that they found it difficult to find information, I decided to develop and gradually expand this website.
Over the years my interest in the relationship between flowers and their pollinators has grown, and that is the main focus of my current gardening activity. The website reflects this and in August 2011 I re-titled the site The Pollinator Garden to reflect its main focus, although it still contains other pages about nature-friendly gardening, for example my Citizen Science, Links and Reading pages, which I regularly check and update, and my factsheets.
About the author
My first major garden project was at the age of 12, when I dug, raked and re-sowed a lawn in our then back garden. Enthused by the success of that project I never looked back, and plants and gardening have been a passion ever since. I have followed largely organic methods since the early 1980s. I'm still enjoying re-seeding lawns as you can see from the picture, but this time (September 2005) I was lifting an area of turf to re-seed it with a mix of native grasses and wild flowers....
And here was the same lawn in 2007 as a wildflower meadow:
In 2009 my partner and I left London and moved to Chepstow in Monmouthshire. Here, on a sunny, sloping, well-drained site I have created new pollinator borders which now throng with wild bees and hoverflies during the summer months.
UPDATED AUGUST 2011
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