What can gardeners tell us about environmental change? A personal reflection on observation, soil, changing seasons and the realities of working with nature.
Category Archives: Within Living Memory
Within Living Memory
A lifetime of watching wildlife raises a troubling question: when did Britain’s ordinary insects, birds and small mammals become less ordinary, and why did we barely notice?
Within Living Memory
A childhood in 1960s and 1970s Australia revisited through memory, family photographs and climate evidence — from suburban bushland and kangaroos to the changing Australian climate.
Within Living Memory
Is the traditional gardening calendar becoming less reliable? A working gardener reflects on changing seasons, wetter winters, hotter summers and why observation increasingly matters more than the date.
Within Living Memory
Has the natural world become quieter? A gardener reflects on sixty years of birds, insects, wildlife and changing gardens, asking what memory and evidence reveal about Britain’s vanishing natural chorus.
