Jack Wallington
Nature and garden writer | wildlife garden designer | landscape artist
Books: Wild about Weeds and A Greener Life
Newsletter: WildWay.info
(Yorkshire 🇬🇧 H4 / 8b-9a)
- Before the election Labour promised the nation it cared about animals and nature, but since then its actions have been hugely damaging to nature. I urge Labour to deliver on their promise including reversing this abhorrent prevention of a key check and balance of animal testing.
- Can you take this over 10,000 signatures? It’s so close… actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
- Reposted by Jack Wallington#Bats🦇 play a vital role in ecosystems, from agricultural land to tropical forests. In tropical zones some species pollinate plants and disperse seeds while approximately 70% of the 1500 described bat species eat insects, including ones that can damage crops. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
- Only 650 signatures needed to hit 10,000 people on the petition asking the Labour Government to confirm the timeline for banning peat in gardening actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... get it done! Thanks everyone who has shared and signed so far.
- Goodbye dad - thank you www.wildway.info/p/goodbye-da...
- Over 9,000 people have signed the petition asking the Government to finally confirm a date for the ban of peat use in gardening, bringing certainty to the horticulture industry actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... pls sign!
- I’ve moved a few little seedlings or divisions of red campion and ox eye daisies up and down the garden to spread them about. That’s about all I can manage today, though it is sunny and mild out with plenty of snowdrops.
- Manage wildlife hedges for patchwork habitats - help butterflies, moths and other insects with by cutting some sections and leaving others. Some tips... www.wildway.info/p/manage-wil...
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- Corrections: BLACKthorn not hawthorn, brown hairstreak - sorry wrote that post on the way out the door
- Limited edition signed prints of Snow on a Calderdale little farm available now: www.jackwallington.com/product/snow...
- I would absolutely love to do this, alas, life... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... a wonderful opportunity for someone who loves their own company, counting and puffins
- Today 6pm 🌱
- Wild Way: Winter-Spring online workshop tonight at 6-8pm, we'll cover wilder gardening, plants to grow and enjoy now, planning for spring including thinking about food crops. With plenty of discussion and question time. www.wildway.info/p/workshop-t...
- Bog in the fog no2. A tricky but fun challenge to paint!
- End the use of precious peat habitat as a compost in gardening - only 1,900 signatures needed to reach 10,000. Please keep signing and sharing. actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... Change can happen.
- Wild Way: Winter-Spring online workshop tonight at 6-8pm, we'll cover wilder gardening, plants to grow and enjoy now, planning for spring including thinking about food crops. With plenty of discussion and question time. www.wildway.info/p/workshop-t...
- Sunset over the garden
- A few quick updates, most importantly about Thursday’s workshop! Subscribe for workshop: wildway.info Art prints: jackwallington.com/shop
- Vets likely to have to publish prices and are under more scrutiny by the Government. Finally. This sector, like dentistry, has been virtually unregulated or checked for the last decade. It has become largely untrustworthy around costs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Join me this Thursday 6 - 8pm online, included in £26/year subscription, invites sent to subscribers on the morning wildway.info
- Limited edition signed prints of my paintings 'Snow in January on a Calderdale little farm' are now available from my shop either individually or as the full triptych www.jackwallington.com/product/snow...
- Glacial remnants in freezing fog. I’ve started a new study of one of my favourite local spots and community projects Bridestones Rewilded. I can’t say I am happy with this sketch nor that I’m confident I’ll be able to achieve what I want to this time, but it’s a wonderful landscape for practicing.
- Kemi Badenoch must feel like she’s having snake poison sucked out of her arm by Nigel Farage. If I were her I’d be delighted.
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