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Jeff Davis (BeeFriendlyGardener)
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 มี.ค. 2018
A Bee-Friendly Wildlife Garden in Kent - update no.1
Quick June 2022 update tour. I have now been here for 18 months.
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A Bee-friendly wildlife garden in Kent
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My new garden having relocated to East Kent (UK) after 27 years with my previous garden. Totally chemical-free;organic;no-dig; small orchard developing towards Forest garden with wildlife gardening principles as my main focus. Closed cycle, everything composted or stacked to enhance biodiversity. Any plants purchased, except the grasses from Knoll Gardens in Dorset, were sourced from peat-free,...
A Bee-friendly wildlife garden in Surrey
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Wildlife gardening in a standard 25m x 6.5m semi-detached garden.
Chris Baines - Blue Tits and Bumblebees : The Making of a Wildlife Garden - part two
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Part two of documentary from 1984.
Chris Baines - Blue Tits and Bumblebees :The Making of a Wildlife Garden - part one (of two).
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1984 documentary "Blue Tits and Bumblebees " about Chris Baines transforming an existing garden to benefit wildlife.
Today the wonderful piece Anji by Davy Graham let me to discover Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. And from there through a comment by Chris Baines himself to find this here. Love it. Thank you.
Amazing !!!!!! 1984!!!!!❤❤❤❤
I love how much intention and thoughtfulness goes into making a wildlife garden and maintaining it too. That to me really feels like the right way because nature responds to that nurturing and graces you with blessings that are priceless
Everyone loves blue tits. That’s why Avatar did so well in… I’m being told I’ve made a grievous mistake
I'm going all out on creating a wildlife friendly garden, having one neighbour with a concrete slab garden with not a plant in site to the other with fake grass it just drives me to do all I can in my own garden for our precious wildlife.
Well done enjoyed that. Loved the informality of it all. Picked up one or two things on the way, which helps as I set out to do something similar. Keep the videos coming.
Absolutely great just came across this video. This is relevant now and forever. Thank you for sharing this.
Pleased that you found it !
Just found your new garden after hearing your recommendation of John Little of the Grass Roof Company on Roots and All it was 2019.
that's cool, John's garden still gets lots of coverage.
Glad you mentioned about hedgehogs, our gardens are so vital in helping them survive, although with having badgers visiting I'm amazed you have any hedgehogs visiting your garden.
Thanks. I don't aspire to the theory that all badgers eat hedgehogs. Certainly our messing with the environment will have caused an unbalanced landscape but they will have lived together for ever. The local hedgehog population had varied over the 27 years I lived at the property and was probably in decline but the local badger sett was also supporting a smaller group. An elderly neighbour used to film 7 in his garden but after he died and his wife took up the mantle,there were never more than 4 adults. Possibly the last straw ,in 2019, the last house in the road with an elderly owner with a relatively overgrown garden was sold and the garden was completley cleared back to bare ground (I've never seen such a blank canvas outside of a new build). The same week a large male was run over and I didn't see a 'hog again before moving out in November 2020.
Bullshit, that conifer you "dug up" was fresh out of a pot plant
What a great vid, thanks to the uploader and the fantastic presenter!
As an american im pretty bummed out that wildlife ponds arent popular over here. Everyone wants a chemically treated crystal clear pond with no life. Yet another thing Americans lack in.
I like my vege garden close to the house along with flowers. Great video series.
Wonderful video thanks
Remember watching this as a kid.
I have just come across your page Jeff. Love your garden! I have a wildlife garden as well. 😍 I have a few medium-size empty pots that I am not quite sure what to plant this Spring. Now I think I shall plant Ragged robins in one of them! Thank you for the inspiration indeed.
thanks. Those Ragged Robin are still going in the same containers. Just keep them damper than others.
Yes it is magical
Thank you for such an inspiring film
Love to see your garden now 40 years on
He is so ahead of his time. What amazing work, knowledge and he is a great presenter too.
Greetings from Ontario Canada.
Beautiful.
Thanks for posting this! I watched this when I was at school in 1984, and it had a big influence on me. Never thought I'd see it again, until this popped up in my recommendations! Around 2000, he did another series on wildlife gardening for the BBC - Charlie's Wildlife Gardens - with Charlie Dimmock (who went to my school!).
Yes, I saw the programme he made with Charlie Dimmock as well. I exchanged a couple of emails with Chris having met him a few years back. He also hadn't seen the film since its original airings (this version was the update shown a bit later) and said he didn't remember having so much hair !
Hi Jeff, absolutely love the garden. Do you know what vaieties of Heuchera and Detuzia you have? Thanks
I'm afraid not. The Deutzia was already in the garden (in 1993) and I didn't record the Heuchera varieties in my gardening diary.
Thanks for the tour of your new garden Jeff
This was so comforting to watch learned a lot🙂
I also used glyphosate on bindweed before I knew better. If you haven't already heard of them, check out Dave Goulson and Joel Ashton.😀
Yes, very familiar with their work. I have DG's books and met Joel when he had a stand at the last Wildlife Gardening forum event at the London Wetland Centre in 2019.
Wealth of information Where did the water come from the pond Keeping a pond seems like hard work I want a friend like you who could guide and support me I’m thinking of a hawthorn bush to attract birds Wish me luck
It is best to collect rainwater for your pond if you can or let it fill up naturally. Tap water can contain nitrates and phosphates which increase your chances of algae problems early in the pond's life before it has a chance to balance. Making a pond can be hard work but a natural pond can more or less look after itself. It's us humans who tend to want things tidy and create work for ourselves!
Pond goals. When I get my own home I’ll be turning the garden into a wildlife haven with a big pond in the centre
I would love to see the garden now in 2020
Great programme, missed it at the time but I can see how it was a big inspiration to a lot of people. Just the sort of gardening I like best.
Really enjoyed this. Could watch forever.
Thank you Jeff, just in the process of converting my shrub garden to a more insect friendly garden. Could list some of the bee and butterfly plants.
I didn't because so many are soil or moisture dependant. Many online resources specific to your soil type when you know what you have.
Blue Tits and Bummblebees on TV in the eighties. Chris Baines encouraged me with my life long interest in wildlife gardening. Love this. Memories too.
What an amazing video for it's time. A little bit of aerial footage in there too (how did he do that?!) I made my first pond when I was 5 in 1983 (no one showed me) out of a Snowhite washing up set for children and have been fascinated with ponds, gardening and birds all these years later. This was such a great video 😌
Fabulous. Everyone should be doing this!!
Great, thanks! been making my garden wilder by bits and pieces. Nice to discover this man.
While visiting the UK 25 years ago I bought this gentleman's book, I still have it on my shelf; it has influenced the way I have been gardening to a considerable extent. Thank you, Sir!
This is great
This is just as interesting as the first part .
This was very interesting , this gardener was definitely ahead of his time .
Anyone know where ths bloke is from? His accent sounds very close to home for me.
Surrey/SW London !
Wrong video - Wolverhampton
Sheffield originally
@@abisu5273 Thanks, I thought it sounded south Yorkshire/Lincolnshire midlands-ish
@Sally - I think he’s British.
I have tried to find this programme on DVD many times, I bought the book when the programme was on television and have followed many of his hints and tips. It was a gem of a programme, the BBC should think of releasing it on DVD or showing it again.
100% agree there's a whole new generation who would appreciate this sort of content in addition to those who watched it in the 80s. It's more thorough and detailed than recent attempts to make this sort of programme.
This changed everything for me all those years ago, still have the photocopied booklet you could send for somewhere.
I sent off for that as well. May still be around somewhere!
Does anyone know where the music comes from? It's beautiful.
I used to know ! Think it's in the credits but they are truncated on part two - and don't know whether that was the original VHS recording I had or by the person who copied it to DVD for me.
It's called darude sandstorm
Chris used to work with the Albion Band.. I suspect them.
It's bert jansch
Agree pulling bind weed weakens it also mares tail. I was over run with both, but pulling it has virtually removed it. I like your garden. My garden was open and sunny but new neighbours have put up 6 ft panel fencing. I’m growing a native hedge along it now. It’s added a lot of shade to a once sunny boarder. I’m replacing the sunny boarder wild woodland natives. You have a great selection of wildlife. Brilliant.
Thanks. Yes, it's a shame 'we' all like private solid panel fencing nowadays. When I grew up in late 60's/early 70's everyone had low,open, chestnut stake or metal mesh boundaries. Depending where it is in the garden,check whether your neighbours would consider letting you have some heavy-duty trellis instead of the panels. I know non-gardeners don't get it but just politely explain how it would allow to you grow a wider variety of flowers because of the extra light. I was lucky, one of my neighbours suggested an open fence because it was cheaper. On the other side I have put two trellis panels up in a part of the garden where both of us only walk past rather than sit or entertain.
Jeff Davis they actually removed a low chain linked fence and replaced it with the panels. They think I’m the mad bug lady lol They have dug up all the garden and replaced with slabs and laid carpet Astro turf over it. I’m growing things up the fence and trying to utilise it as well as I can excepting the shade and working with it. I still have an amazing amount of wildlife dropping in. I’m lucky to have retired early and so can enjoy the wildlife even more. Solitary bees fascinate me. We’re going to try to record all the wildlife we have in our garden this year. I’ve kept a diary of my garden developments over the last 20+ years but never recorded all of the wildlife, just what I might see in a day. This will be an interesting challenge. Wonder if you know the wildlife gardener Chris Baines. There are some excellent videos of him developing his wildlife garden. Worth a watch if your interested .
Thank you so much for posting this! I've been looking for this since buying the book. I was worried that this was going to be outdated, but as soon as I saw it was Chris Baines, I knew that in fact he is ahead of many a people even today!
I loved this programme. Videoed it an watched it over again. What an inspiration.
Thank you so much for posting this. I was 17 when it came out. I didn't know gardening for wildlife was a thing until then. I ordered and bought the book. And I was hooked 😊 I dug my own pond based on Chris's model. And planted my parents' garden in a very natural wildlife friendly way. I have been doing the same wherever I lived ever since, all thanks to this one programe and book 😊
You're welcome. I met Chris at an event in May and told him I had a copy on DVD and that I would get it posted up once I'd learnt how to do it ! He gave me his email address and had a reply back recently saying he'd forgotten how young he was when he made it. An anecdote from a talk that he gave, was that this was intended to be series but the production company wouldn't back the plan and funded just this one-off film. Like you I've had a life of wildlife gardening thanks to him.
He is quite an unsung hero in my eyes. I wish there were more like him. They should do a feature on this film and his books on Springwatch.
I am so impressed, I am just starting our wilding my garden. It is about 3 tennis courts. I make videos and have started posting my first video talking about the process I am going through with map of my garden. I can't wait to watch this video with my wife. I will put links under my videos to it. What is the book you are talking about? I will have to listen to find out. I will. Can't wait. Thank you for posting this video, so inspirational. Yes, miles ahead of his time. I will also share it with friends and family. Brilliant. 1988 I was 37, too busy mixed up in the world to be thinking of this
Nice comment, and although I never saw the program originally, I have had the book almost since then, and done the same thing with each garden I've owned.