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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life
Written by Kate Bradbury
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Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. But while she's doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave their gardens, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened, and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle. Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?
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Kate Bradbury
KATE BRADBURY is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening and the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. She's the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners' World Magazine and has a regular Country Diary column in The Guardian. She writes regularly for the RHS The Garden magazine, The Wildlife Trusts members' magazine and BBC Wildlife. Her garden was featured as part of the BBC Springwatch Garden Watch campaign, and she and her garden have also appeared on Autumnwatch and Gardeners' World. Kate lives in Brighton with her partner, Emma, and their rescue dog, Tosca.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautifully and poignantly told story of the quest to restore a small patch of land