Isabel Hardman finds out how urban wild flowers are saving our bugs and bees with Nick Packham from Buglife's Urban Buzz project, introduces the latest challenge, which is to find wild flowers growing on the pavement, and hears about the joy of monads (and what they are).

9: Blooms for bugs and the joy of monads

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In the latest episode of the #wildflowerhour podcast, Isabel Hardman talks to botanist Joshua Styles about his love of dandelions and the many different species you can find growing wild in Britain and Ireland. She also hears from author Jon Dunn about lockdown botany, and we're off on another wild flower hunt with Leif Bersweden.

4. Why don't we love dandelions?

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3: Under Milkwort

The #wildflowerhour podcast finds out how you can identify orchids even when they're not in flower, hears more about your favourite plants, learns about a proper wild flower lawn, and goes on another one of those walks with Leif Bersweden. Presented by Isabel Hardman.
 
Britain's Orchids: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691177618/britains-orchids
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2: Get to know wild orchids

Isabel Hardman presents the first in a new series of the Wild Flower (Half) Hour podcast. She meets Sophie Leguil, who runs the More Than Weeds campaign, and hears from BBC presenters Chris Packham and Martha Kearney about their favourite wild flowers. Rebecca Wheeler introduces the challenges for the next two weeks of #wildflowerhour and Leif Bersweden takes us on a wild flower walk. 
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1: The flowers on our streets

The latest episode of the #wildflowerhour podcast includes an interview with a man who has created a wild orchid haven in his back garden, a look at Orchid Hunter Leif Bersweden's adventures studying orchids for his PhD, and another one of those lovely readings from Zoe Devlin's book, Blooming Marvellous.

9: Blooms for bugs and the joy of monads

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