Summaries of Contributions

• Roger Williams – Science, gardening and biodiversity
• Helen Bostock – Ladders, holes and pitfalls: year one for the RHS Plants for Bugs project
• Jan Miller – Importance of brownfield sites and how to mimic them in the garden.
• Margaret Couvillon – How good is the British countryside for our honey bees? Decoding waggle dances to determine where the bees are foraging
• Mike Toms – Conservation status of garden birds
• Jeremy Biggs – What’s really living in your garden pond? First results from Pond Conservation’s detailed garden pond research programme.
• Mark Goddard – Scaling up from gardens: Avian diversity in a residential ecosystem
• Chloë Smith and Elaine Hughes – The LWT/GLA/GiGL Gardens Research Project – Investigating the nature of London’s gardens using aerial photography and GIS
• June Greenaway – The social science of wildlife gardening: Why some people choose to practice while others do not.
• Steve Head – So what IS the role of gardens in biodiversity conservation?
• The National Launch of Jennifer Owen’s book “Wildlife of a Garden: A Thirty-Year Study\”
• Ken Thompson – Jennie Owen’s “invention\” of Garden Ecology
• Transcript of the Video of Jennifer Owen talking about her book.