Jack Wallington
@jackwallington.com
Habitat-first regenerative growing 🌱 🌿 Books: Grower Gatherer (out 3 Sept), A Greener Life & Wild about Weeds 🌳 Newsletter: WildWay.info (Yorkshire 🇬🇧 H4 / 8b-9a)
The results are in from the recent survey I ran on wild plants thriving, surviving or suffering in this year's heatwaves and drought - thank you everyone who took part or shared it! www.wildway.info/p/drought-to...
Drought tolerant wild plants
In August I ran a second survey, this time asking which wild plants where thriving, coping or suffering (first garden survey).
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Fossil fuel companies have known about man-made climate change for fifty years. Politicians have known about it for fifty years. Every climate disaster is a massacre.
Nepal floods: Climate change 'bursting' Himalayan glaciers
The Nepalese journalist Surendra Phuyal tells Sky News about the climate change link to 'one of the worst disasters in Nepal.'
news.sky.com
The results are in from the recent survey I ran on wild plants thriving, surviving or suffering in this year's heatwaves and drought - thank you everyone who took part or shared it! www.wildway.info/p/drought-to...
Drought tolerant wild plants
In August I ran a second survey, this time asking which wild plants where thriving, coping or suffering (first garden survey).
wildway.info
Some wildflowers have seed heads that are truly spectacular! The challenge this week is to find some and then share your lovely pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #SeedHeads! Any wild or naturalised blooms you find too are of course always welcome!
I've begun a new perennial crop growing hub on my main website here and will be adding new articles and guides in the coming weeks and months: www.jackwallington.com/edible-garde...
Did the people of America even ask for this? What a horrible, stupid waste of time and tax payer money www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America
Trump's order comes after the trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed late last week.
bbc.co.uk
If we're waiting for people in charge to wake up and care about the way global warming is going destroy lives around the world - we need to think again. If they don't care now they never will. We have to rip our world out of their hands. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Nepal-Tibet: More than 800 missing in Nepal as authorities say glacier collapse triggered flash flood
In neighbouring Tibet, officials say more than 500 are missing - it's not clear if that figure overlaps with Nepal's. In Nepal, at least 177 bodies have been found.
bbc.co.uk
Those one litre herbs that were potted up yesterday, around 2000 of them, are now in the multispan, watered in and being left to grow on 🌱🇬🇧 #herbs #flowers #horticulture
Hemerocallis, the daylily, from one of my least favourite flowers to one of my absolute favourites. Double trouble: colourful and delish! One of the star plants in my book Grower Gatherer, available for pre-order everywhere now www.youtube.com/shorts/QfyQ9...
Incredible salad flavour! Daylily, Hemerocallis
YouTube video by Wild Way
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New rose, winter salad, colourful flowers www.wildway.info/p/new-rose-w... weekly bonus diary for paid supporters 🌱
New rose, winter salad, colourful flowers
Plus rumination, our new chickens and more!
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1) It's sad that we have had hundreds of news stories this year about parched parks and fields, but most don't mention how trees, shrubs, wildflowers and hedgerows are coping. This doesn't mention tree once, despite them being the biggest lesson in the photos: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
London in drought: 'We need to change how we think about water'
Experts say a changing climate and increasing demand for water will mean people need to make changes.
bbc.co.uk
"We want to scrap Net Zero." - Kemi Badenoch MP, Leader of the Opposition "Just enjoy it." - Richard Tice MP, Reform UK
At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves
Figure only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals
theguardian.com
Weekend reading: I travelled the length of England observing the worst hit drought areas, this is what I saw: www.wildway.info/p/15-observa...
15 observations of heatwave and drought across England
Hope and horror as I visit some of the worst hit areas
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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
“Can’t beat them? Eat them! Ten of the tastiest garden weeds” my latest article in The Guardian today, print and online www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... (the team did a beautiful job of the print version especially!)
Can’t beat them? Eat them! Ten of the tastiest garden weeds
Edible weeds grow in abundance in our gardens, streets and parks. With a little know-how, you can harvest delicious, nutritious, free greens
theguardian.com
Hope and horror as I visit some of the worst hit areas www.wildway.info/p/15-observa...
15 observations of heatwave and drought across England
Hope and horror I visit some of the worst hit areas
wildway.info
Well this is terrifying "I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts," Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office. It could threaten tens of millions of people in at-risk countries with crisis-level acute food insecurity. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office
Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.
bbc.co.uk
Some idiot (me) forgot to set the postage on Grower Gatherer’s shop page so noone has been able to order it - I have now fixed it… www.jackwallington.com/product/grow...
Grower Gatherer: edible perennials to grow and forage in your garden (signed copy) | Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens
Bring the joy of foraging into your own garden with this beautiful guide to growing low-maintenance edible perennials Many gardeners enjoy growing crops to harvest, but when winter arrives, the bare b...
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Hope and horror as I visit some of the worst hit areas www.wildway.info/p/15-observa...
15 observations of heatwave and drought across England
Hope and horror I visit some of the worst hit areas
wildway.info
Good to have rain across the country in the last 24 hours
I cannot see a dead fish as a "conservation success". Bluefin tuna are still rare - they only avoid being technically endangered cos they stabilised at a tiny number. That's not a healthy population, just a stable one. Let them breed and really do well before you fish for them if you have to.
First bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire since 1960s ‘success story’ for marine conservation
Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction
theguardian.com
I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
bylinetimes.com
I’m driving down south tomorrow - can anyone recommend some good nature reserves on the way, sort of around Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Kent way? And all in between - I’d ideally like to see the severity of the drought and also some wildlife or wildflowers
Been meaning to write this one for about three years... finally! www.wildway.info/p/knautia-ar...
Knautia arvensis | field scabious
Airy late-summer beauty loved by wildlife in meadows and borders
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Peacocks typically have one generation a year in Britain, with the adults entering diapause as soon as they've accumulated enough fat reserves. Further south (and increasingly at higher latitudes too), they will produce a second generation. The decision to enter diapause is determined by day length.
I wish people would stop saying "we need new reservoirs" and instead focus on "expanding existing reservoir capacity". Most reservoirs are in valleys and dips where raising dam height marginally would increase capacity dramatically. Much easier than building only new reservoirs.
