October 2011
BASINGSTOKE IN BLOOM NEEDS YOU!
A group of committed volunteers met at the Civic Offices in Basingstoke in October to discuss the future of Basingstoke in Bloom. Basingstoke in Bloom celebrates the parklands and open spaces of Basingstoke and Deane, and a competition awards prizes to the best residential gardens in and around the Borough. Basingstoke In Bloom is set [...]
OLD DOWN & BEGGARWOOD WILDLIFE GROUP
Bumblebees and Cuckoos It may sound a sound strange combination but a recent excellent talk by one of our own members, Chris Rose, was highly illuminating and left me struggling to take in all the information she had gathered about Bumblebees during her first season studying them on Old Down. One interesting thing I learned [...]
KEMPSHOTT CONSERVATION GROUP
Seed collection……….. Tis the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…… and seed collecting, which is now in full swing and a very important part of the conservation process. By taking wild flower seed from key sites with, of course, the owners’ permission, we can build up a store of seed of known provenance. It is [...]
BLACK CAT AWARENESS DAY – 27th Oct
Unwanted black cats in Basingstoke are being left on the shelf Cats Protection’s Basingstoke & District Branch is urging people to adopt a black cat as it struggles to care for growing numbers of them.
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