The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch - the world’s largest wildlife survey - takes place Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January 2010 and we really need your help. Now in it’s 31st year, we have half a million people participating annually but we can always do with a couple more! (more…)

Changes in birds and people recorded by Big Garden Birdwatch 1979-2009

The table shows the average number of the top 15 species of birds recorded per garden across the UK in the 1979 Big Garden Birdwatch, and compares this with the results from the 2008 survey. (more…)

Twigs Way has compiled a full 12 months’ editions of ‘Allotment and Garden Guide’ - the flagship title in the wartime government’s ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign - and adds commentary and insight, not only into gardening but into the war years, with the urgent threat that food might simply run out counterbalanced by the timelessness of seasonal routines. (more…)