badger's big book of garden wildlife

Badger’s Big Bookof Garden Wildlife

L F Badger

Badger’s Big Bookof Garden WildlifeL F Badger

Badger’s Big Book of Garden Wildlife by L F Badger

© 2016 L F Badger, ably assisted by Claire Smith. All rights reserved.

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In French, is flower is known as “La dame d’onze heures” - e eleven o’clock lady - as e flowers open at around is time of day.

Star of BethlehemOrnithogalum umbellatum

M any varieties of A lkanet can be usedas a dye plant, wi eir r ts givinga range of pink and purple colours.

Green AlkanetPentaglottis sempervirens

A ccording to Pliny, e healing properties of is plant were discovered by swa ows, who used its sap to treat infection in e eyes of eir chicks.

Greater CelandineChelidonium majus

e W elsh Poppy is e County flowerof M erio y . e name “meconopsis” ra er litera y translates to mean “lks like a poppy”, which is handy!

Welsh PoppyMeconopsis cambrica

In Turkish folklore is flower was a co on ma ow, transformed by e touch of M oha ed’s garment. Its ripe fruit resembles e bi of a crane.

CranesbillGeranium sylvaticum

Herb Robert has many names and as many uses! It can be used as a dyestu and an insect repeent, and is closely a ociated wi fairies and foxes.

Herb RobertGeranium robertianum

A poen-feeding scarb beee, like ose revered in ancient Egypt, you can

easily spot a rosechafer by its beautiful iidescent green colour.

RosechaferCetonia aurata

W hen Perdix, Greek "Lord of e Pear Trees", was cast into e sea to die, his go e , A ena, ca ied him to heaven in e form of a Partridge.

PearPyrus communis

Not a bees live in hives! is one is a solitary bee, making its home in any hoow tube. It doesn’t sting, and is an extremely e icient localised poinator.

Red Mason BeeOsmia bicornis

e ancient Greek god of e w ds, Silenus, gave his name to is plant. It is also said to guard e honey-stores of fairies, and to cure snakebites!

Red CampionSilene dioica

It turns out at ere’s no fascinatingfolk tale behind Garlic M ustard’s co on name of Jack-by- e-Hedge. at’s just where you find it growing!

Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata

In Scandinavian my ology, golden apples were tasted by e gods in order to ensure eir perpetual you .

AppleMalus domestica (Braeburn)

e most useful garden plant ere is! Early f d for bees, edible from r t to flower, a cure for warts, and of courseyou can use it to te e tme!

DandelionTaraxacum officinale

ere are many dierent varieties ofSpeedwe, but take care! Some folklorestates at if you pick it, you wi haveyour eyes pecked out by birds!

SpeedwellVeronica persica

Bibliography & Further Reading

Room, Adrian (Ed.), Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable Sixteenth Edition, Cassell, London, 2003

Hawes, Zoe, Wild Drugs, A Forager’s Guide to Healing Plants, Octopus, London, 2010

Chappell, Cherry, Grandma’s Remedies, Random House, London, 2009

Simpson, Simpson, Jaqueline & Roud, Steve, A Dictionary of English Folklore, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

Mabey, Richard, Food for Free, HarperCollins, London, 2004

Mabey, Richard (Ed.), The Complete New Herbal, Penguin, London, 1988

Nozedar, Adele, The Hedgerow Handbook, Square Peg, London, 2012

Potterton, Davis (Ed.), Culpeper’s Colour Herbal, Foulsham, Cippenham, 1997

Brown, Deni, RHS Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1996 London, 1996

L F Badger is a keen photographer,specialising in the flora and fauna that he finds in the environs of his own garden. He is also an avid scholar of the fascinating folklore surrounding our native wildflowers.

In thiIn this, his first book, Badger hassought to bring the two together in a lighthearted yet engaging manner.

Praise for Badger’s Big Book of Garden Wildlife:

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Lovely pictures of flowers. I can look at these instead of venturing outdoors!

House Mouse

Great artistic merit, although of course I could have done far better myself.

Fox

TThat picture of the great big beetle was a bit too scary,but the pretty flowers are very nice.

Velociraptor