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Jack Wallington

1 month

No one publishes the quantity of harmful pesticides produced and sold for outdoor garden use - has the Government asked for it? Last year, no. But we can do a rough calculation by number of shops, products per shop, wildlife killed per bottle.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

I demand on behalf of the entire British people that @Jacob_Rees_Mogg publish an entire list of every one of his investments. Plus every relationship he has to companies making money out of fossil fuels (fracking, oil, gas).

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

Patio madness

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2 years

All garden pesticides should - as a start - be banned from home use, they are not needed and in the hands of untrained amateur users are devastating for wildlife. To sell them on every shelf of local supermarkets is totally irresponsible and extremely dangerous for wildlife.

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Jack Wallington

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1 year

Our patio is becoming a meadow, I should probably do ‘something’ about that ☕️

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@jackwallington

2 years

Let’s use this #ChelseaFlowerShow to make a stand together and ban pesticides, peat use and plastic grass from UK use for good - none of them are needed, it’s time to draw the line

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

1 year

Exploring Akebia male and female flowers >>

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1 year

I love the film RRR so much 🐅

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

This is what every supermarket and garden centre will look like in spring, billions of insects will die, birds will die, mammals will die, wildplants will die. Unless we ban all non-organic pesticides now. Sign the petition - please share the petition >>

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2 years

You know that moment, at your computer and it seems sensible to buy hundreds of bulbs, then months later they arrive and you have to plant them all 😬

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@jackwallington

1 year

@RishiSunak Stop taking away the British people’s freedom to protest, we are not a dictatorship. Deal with the problems and the protests go away.

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@jackwallington

1 year

Daylight is already 12 minutes longer than the winter solstice on 21st December, increasing by a minute a day and speeding up. Hang in there. ☀️ 🌱

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@jackwallington

2 years

If I'm asked one more time what the alternative to a plastic lawn is, I might walk to the end of our garden and scream into the valley. It's like we've lost our collective minds.

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@jackwallington

10 months

Fright of my life just now, Aconitum was lurking in our hedge, I escaped before it pounced or I started eating it involuntarily - saw my life flashing before my eyes

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

Blue line natural extinction rate. Red line current extinction rate. We did this. #ExtinctionTheFacts

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@jackwallington

3 years

Goodbye London, hello Hebden Bridge - we're moving to Yorkshire!

We’re moving to Hebden Bridge | Jack Wallington Garden Design Ltd

I'm excited to share that after twenty years of living in London, Chris, Rumbles and I are moving to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire where we've just bought a farm from a really lovely couple. The...

www.jackwallington.com

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2 years

You don’t need a garden to grow stuff #haworth

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@jackwallington

3 years

We happened to drive past some of the Sheffield Grey to Green scheme - absolutely blown away by its scale!

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@jackwallington

4 years

I want every park in the UK to turn 30-50% of their land into nature reserves. In today’s @telegardening I’m asking the entire country to act on research and advice from @WildlifeTrusts @Love_plants and @DaveGoulson 🐝🦋🌸

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

1 in 10 homeowners have replaced real lawn with the environmental catastrophe artificial grass. The Gov should ban plastic grass but it does nothing saying it's consumers' choice. As with plastic bags, straws & cups, choice leads to a nature disaster.

Now one in ten homeowners have ditched their real lawn for fake grass

Fake grass is taking over British gardens - as one in ten homeowners use it to replace their lawn. Even Mrs Hinch endorses its evergreen look and that it can be vacuumed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

Path through the coppice to the orchard - which I’m thinking of using for more edible forest gardening.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

6 months

A trip to A&E, antibiotics, a raised arm and lots of rest - thank you so much everyone for your advice earlier and sorry for the silence, we did make it to A&E and I’ve been resting, not out of the woods yet but hopefully. This is what happened >>

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 months

How symbollic of Britain in 2024 - floral clock concreted over to make it easier to look after. An artist will paint some sunflowers on it. Why not just plant wildflowers to help wildlife and do something good?

Weston-super-Mare floral clock concreted over by charity

The group taking care of the clock said they wanted to make it easier to look after.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

It stretches. It cuts. It grips. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about a gardening tool 😍

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@jackwallington

1 year

I visited just 7 shops in Halifax yesterday, this is every town across the UK and online during an insect crisis. Organic and non-organic jumbled up. Professionals require qualifications. None of it needed! Time for a rethink UK. Time to ban for garden use

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@jackwallington

1 year

Every person who photographs mushrooms and lichen, flowers or frogs. You are the non-weird people. Weird is walking past it all not noticing it any of it. I mean life is amazing, not seeing or caring about life is weird. And I will always be here thinking how cool you all are.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

10 months

I hate low quality scaremonger writing like this "children's lives were "at stake"" - yeah, if your children are literal sheep, eating the hedges. What happened to common sense - nature is full of spiky and poisonous things - let's use our heads a bit.

UK poisonous plants: The dangerous plants lurking in plain sight

As concerns are voiced about hemlock near a school, an expert tells of other deadly green neighbours.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

Feb 2015 vs Sept 2019 - let's just say things got slightly out of hand and leave it at that

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

I’m sick of the news - I don’t care who will be prime minister anymore, they’re all as self-interested as the other and there’ll be another in a couple of years no doubt anyway. Instead here’s a photo of our garden - a few years off but certainly powering up.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

One day I will be able to mention how beautiful ragwort is without a million people telling me everything I already know about it 🙄 thank goodness no one knows about the far worse plants they touch and walk past every single day or we'd be here all week!

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

I found a tiny world on a twig

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@jackwallington

2 years

I love this dusky dark tulip that was already growing in our new garden, does anyone recognise it?

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

1 year

We have to see Astro turf as the environmental disaster it is - a plastic lawn deletes a habitat of soil and the millions of lives that live within it. Bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, worms, bees, beetles, wasps, birds that eat them, mammals. You don’t see them die but they do.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

Snow drops under the pear tree 💞

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

1 year

Conservationists, ecologists and nature lovers - I’ve done all I can over the last five and a half months to get this petition over the line of 10,000. We’ve done well to get it to 6,630 - thank you everyone - but we can’t do it without your help now.

Petition: Ban the sale of all non-organic pesticides to the general public

Many non-organic pesticides can currently be sold to anyone in the UK without any checks or training. They should be banned from sale, online and in person, to the general public.

petition.parliament.uk

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

“In 2014, he was referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to disclose interests in Somerset Capital – a company with millions of pounds invested in fossil fuel, mining, and tobacco firms when speaking in relevant debates.” By @CarolineLucas and his interests..

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@jackwallington

2 years

Some people who make money from digging and selling peat claim plants don’t grow as well in peat free compost. But what do they think all the plants in the world grow in? Soil is mainly rock and peat free compost, that’s why peat bogs are so precious, there aren’t very many.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

Right that’s it, I’m planting out all the tender plants and seedlings. If there’s another cold spell so be it! They’re on their own.

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@jackwallington

2 years

When the stars align

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

Of course the unintentional plant combo that I love but also don’t like is the most bountiful area right now 😒

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

I have this thing with moss. With the right damp and shady conditions it grows very well in the UK. Why remove it from walls and lawns? I love it so much I made the case for it in my book Wild about Weeds. #moss #yorkshire

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

I'm often asked what the best alternative to a fake lawn is, and somewhat surprisingly the answer is usually, a real living lawn

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

1 year

The very first thing you see at the front door of @asda in Wakefield #banwildlifepoisons

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

As a gardening industry it feels like we should scrap the ‘John Innes formula’ of composts and come up with a modern peat free and more sustainable in other ways ‘compost formula’ alternative fit for the future. What do you think?

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

1) I find it so odd that all chickens - used for eggs and meat by almost everyone - in the UK are having to be kept inside to protect them from bird flu. While millions of pheasants are released into the wild spreading bird flu, used for meat by a minuscule number of people.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

Retweet if you think at least 30% of every single London park across the city should be left to rewild as homes for wildlife and plant life 🐛🦇🦉🐌🐞🦗🕷

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

5 years

I'm so excited to be able to share something I have been working on for years, my first gardening book! 😊 Wild about Weeds is a labour of love being published with @LaurenceKingPub around the world on 21st October and can be preordered on Amazon now 💕

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

A couple of commenters on my column were unnecessarily rude about my no dig way of growing leeks the other week. These are the final scrappy ones from last year, the worst of the bunch. I’ll reflect on their criticism while I’m eating them later.

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@jackwallington

1 year

Chickens are so sweet, in their weirdo little dinosaur way. They just love hanging out with you. I’ve been struck recently how much animals want company even if it’s from afar.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

4 years

Fake grass... ❌ almost always can’t be recycled ❌ ends up in landfill adding to plastic waste ❌ has no wildlife value at all ❌ blocks leaf litter and humus reaching soil For those reasons, I’m out. Sign the petition to ban:

Petition: Ban the sale of artificial grass

The sale of artificial grass should be banned in the UK for environmental reasons. It is environmentally irresponsible to allow garden space occupied by grass and other plant life (which processes...

petition.parliament.uk

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

My mum and dad’s garden that they planned and made in lockdown, and planted up this year with lots of alpines

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@jackwallington

3 years

*puts the potatoes back on the windowsill*

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@jackwallington

2 years

Am I the only person who views all life on earth as equally important to humans, or does the entire world think humans are so much more important? Thoroughly depressed with some opinions today.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

If the UK and Ireland Governments can't even ban peat use in horticulture, seriously what hope is there for their so called climate plans? This is basic, the lowest, the simplest step that we've known about for decades. We should be focussed on more important things by now.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

1 year

Winter solstice, the northern hemisphere is the furthest away from the sun. Earth begins tilting forward, increasing day length, from tomorrow, telling plants up and down the country that spring, and warmer weather, will soon be on the way. Wishing you all a very happy 2023.

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1 year

@ukhomeoffice @SuellaBraverman This is such a political tweet to come from the home office account - at the least it’s unprofessional

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

Our front patio garden herb beds. I haven’t really done much here except plant some herbs, move stuff around and follow the guidance set out in Wild about Weeds and A Greener Life. Ox-eye daisies are just about to flower in the paving.

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@jackwallington

2 years

If horticulture wants to be a green industry at its core, at an absolute minimum it needs to: 1) Ban pesticides 2) Stop all peat use immediately (UK sourced and imported) 3) Ban astro turf or insist it needs planning permission 4) Stop single use plastic, reduce other plastic

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

6 months

A gross photo - sorry - my hand is infected from a bite or splinter and it’s progressing up my arm which is potentially very serious. No walk in centres here, I called 111 and they cancelled a call back. The UK and NHS is broken and the pothole obsessed Conservatives broke it.

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@jackwallington

3 years

Verbena bonariensis and Cosmos ‘Purity’ - I know lots of people think they’re nothing special but they’re still capable of special things.

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@jackwallington

4 years

It’s time to up the front garden ante - how’s this for making the most of a small space, filled with bees #echiumpininana #londonlife #londonlockdown

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

1 year

Should we ban fake grass? Obviously yes. No one wants me to stop talking about banning things more than me. If our Government listened when we said how awful it is back in 2020 (and earlier!) we wouldn’t still be talking about it

‘It would survive nuclear Armageddon’: should plastic grass be banned?

Artificial lawns are more popular than ever – but they are also an environmental nightmare. Will the campaign to stop them be successful?

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

8 months

The swallows and house martins have come to say goodbye before they migrate south and their chatter is glorious music

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@jackwallington

3 years

Call out to @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB @asda @waitrose @Morrisons @coopuk please in spring 2021, only stock peat free compost and organic gardening products - peat based compost comes from digging up natural habitats and releases huge amounts of carbon into the environment.

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Jack Wallington

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4 years

Two years ago today was the day I went from part-time to full-time garden design and writing. It was scary and exciting giving up my previous career and every day I am thankful to the people who have supported and encouraged me. It's hard work but I am so glad I made that change.

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

2 years

My kind of show garden

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

Discovered the most ‘cottage garden’ cottage garden ever

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

Tomatoes anyone? Interesting year for tomatoes, we avoided the blight that struck many people for which I’m grateful. There are nine cultivars here and I like fewer than I dislike, useful for planning 2022. #wildwaynewsletter

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@jackwallington

1 year

I don’t take any pleasure in someone being sent to jail. However it is time we recognise the gravity of crime against the environment and wildlife, especially at a point of immense global pressure. Some may be surprised but they simply do not understand how serious this is.

Environment Agency

@EnvAgency

1 year

Today, landowner John Price was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for the destruction of 1.5km of the protected River Lugg. Together with @NaturalEngland , we welcome this sentence and will continue to work hard to restore the health of our rivers. 📰:

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

9 months

When we moved in I plugged the outlet of this trough, added a mini water lily and some oxygenating plants. I’ve since seen a newt, frog and water boatman in it, now we have the most perfect flowers 💞 see a container, will micro pond.

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@jackwallington

1 year

I’m going to take a few days away from Twitter, I feel punched in the head by the issues facing our planet, nature and people. I care about it all which is why I can’t keep up, making it hard to do each issue and myself justice. Need to focus on real life for a bit 💞

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Jack Wallington

@jackwallington

3 years

Admiring the houseplants and cut flowers in our local post office’s new coffee shop

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@jackwallington

1 year

I hate to be an environmental bore but these single use plastic nets, they’ve gotta go. Dangerous for wildlife and you can see microplastic threads falling off of it. I’ll be careful where I buy in future. Anyway, I’ve placed in trays to encourage shoots before planting in April.

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@jackwallington

3 years

I really love it when gardeners create something the whole community can enjoy. This is all grown by a lovely lady who waters it from a little well.

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@jackwallington

3 years

Dear Aster breeders, Please can you name your next cultivar 'La Vista, Baby'? It will make a lot of garden writers happy. Thank you, Jack p.s. I know they're not called asters any more but leave that bit to us

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@jackwallington

3 years

Great to see @coopuk largely stocking peat free compost - better than most supermarkets

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@jackwallington

2 years

It’s my birthday today and I want to take the opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has supported my love of the natural world, exploring it and learning what everything is. Remember, making a mistake means you just learnt something new 🌿🍄🦔🧚

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@jackwallington

3 years

I love this old rhodi in town - I much prefer them as trees than small bushes 💞🌸

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@jackwallington

11 months

Thinking about @DefraGovUK 's response to the petition asking to ban the most harmful garden pesticides... "Authorised pesticides, used carefully, are an acceptable way of managing the natural environment" This is simply not true, it's a false claim.

Petition: Ban the sale of all non-organic pesticides to the general public

Many non-organic pesticides can currently be sold to anyone in the UK without any checks or training. They should be banned from sale, online and in person, to the general public.

petition.parliament.uk

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@jackwallington

1 year

@BBCWorld @lewis_goodall Appalling

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2 years

Our old London garden in 2013 when we were renting it vs 2020

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@jackwallington

11 months

As an artist I see wild gardens as the most important and exciting new art form to emerge this century. Not many others do, I was recently excluded from a climate change art exhibition because the wild planting I proposed wasn’t considered “art” - no planting design is. Yet.

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@jackwallington

2 years

Are there any sustainability champions in the Christmas sector? It's depressing to see all of the plastic junk each year, using up precious resources and ending in landfill. If every sector/industry focusses on cleaning up its act environmentally it's a huge combined impact.

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1 year

It’s really silly that we have our chickens covered to protect them from the avian bird flu pandemic, and in the area directly next to them are multiple breeding pairs of pheasants released randomly into the wild every year.

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2 years

Brassicas: kales, sprouts, cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli

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1 year

I don't know about you but I'm ready for spring and summer now

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@jackwallington

5 years

This rose has the most unusual grey purple flowers

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@jackwallington

1 year

On a trip to London over the last few days, it struck me how grey it is on dull days, which I just don't feel in the countryside. The importance of adding as much green back into urban areas is so important for an uplift in our mental health as well as for nature.

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@jackwallington

2 years

I keep willing this self heal to make the jump from one of our borders into the lawn to spread around. I’m always so envious of people with lawns full of self heal, and to think people used to weedkiller it to remove it!

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2 years

Creeping thyme I added to the patio last year

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2 years

How gardening and nature help me cope with stress and anxiety - I've been putting off posting this for years and even now I'm unsure about posting it, but fuck it...

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11 months

I cannot believe how fast and overgrown things have become in the last week! This is not a safe space for control freaks right now 😂

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@jackwallington

5 years

Oops. How’d they get in there?

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10 months

It's been interesting watching the general public's reaction to Just Stop Oil this year. To me it suggests most people still don't grasp what we are all facing with the climate. If they did, everyone would be joining the protestors on the roads until the Government act.

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4 years

Popped to Great Dixter for its first day open since lockdown. I found it quite emotional really to be back.