Kate Bradbury
@katebradbury.bsky.social
Garden/Nature writer/presenter 🏳️🌈 @Froglifers and @BumblebeeTrust patron. @savebutterflies and @the_RHS
ambassador. Agent @DFMTalent. Born at 342.54ppm
ambassador. Agent @DFMTalent. Born at 342.54ppm
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I wrote a Christmas gift guide! Who am I? Anyway, there’s lots of crap out there so get the best deal for the wildlife gardener in your life. Merry Christmas 🎄
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Gifts for wildlife gardeners that really work
(Or, don't buy a hedgehog box that kills hedgehogs. Ok?)
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December 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I wrote a Christmas gift guide! Who am I? Anyway, there’s lots of crap out there so get the best deal for the wildlife gardener in your life. Merry Christmas 🎄
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
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This is really helpful re hedgehog homes. After a hedgehog nested & raised her young under a shrub by my patio this summer, I wanted to get a box but there are so many to choose from. I went with the one pictured, which is really well made and the wildlife cam suggests has had an interested hog.
I wrote a Christmas gift guide! Who am I? Anyway, there’s lots of crap out there so get the best deal for the wildlife gardener in your life. Merry Christmas 🎄
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
Gifts for wildlife gardeners that really work
(Or, don't buy a hedgehog box that kills hedgehogs. Ok?)
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is really helpful re hedgehog homes. After a hedgehog nested & raised her young under a shrub by my patio this summer, I wanted to get a box but there are so many to choose from. I went with the one pictured, which is really well made and the wildlife cam suggests has had an interested hog.
Happy frogspawn in Cornwall Day! (Yes it’s this early every year). @benjyhere.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Happy frogspawn in Cornwall Day! (Yes it’s this early every year). @benjyhere.bsky.social
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‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia #Climate
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia #Climate
I wrote a Christmas gift guide! Who am I? Anyway, there’s lots of crap out there so get the best deal for the wildlife gardener in your life. Merry Christmas 🎄
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
Gifts for wildlife gardeners that really work
(Or, don't buy a hedgehog box that kills hedgehogs. Ok?)
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I wrote a Christmas gift guide! Who am I? Anyway, there’s lots of crap out there so get the best deal for the wildlife gardener in your life. Merry Christmas 🎄
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
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For Non-Fiction November #CatChatBookClub choice, Mum read “One Garden Against the World” by the wonderful @katebradbury.bsky.social
It puts into words everything that mum feels passionately in her heart about the natural world 💚 Hedgehogs feature prominently! We urge EVERYONE to read it
It puts into words everything that mum feels passionately in her heart about the natural world 💚 Hedgehogs feature prominently! We urge EVERYONE to read it
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
For Non-Fiction November #CatChatBookClub choice, Mum read “One Garden Against the World” by the wonderful @katebradbury.bsky.social
It puts into words everything that mum feels passionately in her heart about the natural world 💚 Hedgehogs feature prominently! We urge EVERYONE to read it
It puts into words everything that mum feels passionately in her heart about the natural world 💚 Hedgehogs feature prominently! We urge EVERYONE to read it
*CHRISTMAS OFFER* Signed copies of People’s Book Prize winner and Wainwright longlisted One Garden Against the World for you or a friend: £22 incl postage. Or subscribe to my Substack for £40 per year and you can buy it for a fiver.
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DM me! Merry Christmas 🎄
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DM me! Merry Christmas 🎄
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
*CHRISTMAS OFFER* Signed copies of People’s Book Prize winner and Wainwright longlisted One Garden Against the World for you or a friend: £22 incl postage. Or subscribe to my Substack for £40 per year and you can buy it for a fiver.
open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...
DM me! Merry Christmas 🎄
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DM me! Merry Christmas 🎄
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Enjoying the annual RHS John MacLeod Annual Lecture - @katebradbury.bsky.social fantastic presentation, amazing garden, full of life e.g. five species of butterfly in the 'world smallest meadow' www.rhs.org.uk/science/arti...
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Enjoying the annual RHS John MacLeod Annual Lecture - @katebradbury.bsky.social fantastic presentation, amazing garden, full of life e.g. five species of butterfly in the 'world smallest meadow' www.rhs.org.uk/science/arti...
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@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social please spread the word, what an opportunity this would be for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Where are those for whom £30m is small change? Anyway, here in the real world, please donate if you can. @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
BBC News - Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate - BBC News
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BBC News - Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate - BBC News
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Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate
Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social please spread the word, what an opportunity this would be for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
My next wildlife garden safari at the rewilded walled garden @kneppwilding is this Thursday, 21 August. The morning session has a new later time of 10am and the afternoon session is at 2pm. Still spaces in each. Get involved!
knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My next wildlife garden safari at the rewilded walled garden @kneppwilding is this Thursday, 21 August. The morning session has a new later time of 10am and the afternoon session is at 2pm. Still spaces in each. Get involved!
knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
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The swifts, the swifts
How dare they leave two weeks early.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Privet Hawkmoth caterpillar descending an Ash tree to pupate beneath ground. But plastic grass meant it couldn't. Plastic lawns are terrible on every front. Ban them.
@irishrainforest.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social
@irishrainforest.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Privet Hawkmoth caterpillar descending an Ash tree to pupate beneath ground. But plastic grass meant it couldn't. Plastic lawns are terrible on every front. Ban them.
@irishrainforest.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social
@irishrainforest.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social
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I'm so pleased to see that One Garden Against the World by @katebradbury.bsky.social has been longlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social conservation writing prize. 1/3
August 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm so pleased to see that One Garden Against the World by @katebradbury.bsky.social has been longlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social conservation writing prize. 1/3
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1. Some people align their morality with the law, and consider breaking it to be immoral, even when the law is oppressive.
I point them to my Dutch in-laws, who broke the law by sheltering a Jewish boy, and the Nazi soldiers and Dutch police, whose raids seeking criminals like them upheld the law.🧵
I point them to my Dutch in-laws, who broke the law by sheltering a Jewish boy, and the Nazi soldiers and Dutch police, whose raids seeking criminals like them upheld the law.🧵
July 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
1. Some people align their morality with the law, and consider breaking it to be immoral, even when the law is oppressive.
I point them to my Dutch in-laws, who broke the law by sheltering a Jewish boy, and the Nazi soldiers and Dutch police, whose raids seeking criminals like them upheld the law.🧵
I point them to my Dutch in-laws, who broke the law by sheltering a Jewish boy, and the Nazi soldiers and Dutch police, whose raids seeking criminals like them upheld the law.🧵
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Well that was wonderful. I was inspired, I cried, I got angry at ‘Drone Bastard’ and enjoyed all the local references. Thank you @katebradbury.bsky.social
“We can all be weird little gardeners in our pyjamas.”
“We can all be weird little gardeners in our pyjamas.”
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Well that was wonderful. I was inspired, I cried, I got angry at ‘Drone Bastard’ and enjoyed all the local references. Thank you @katebradbury.bsky.social
“We can all be weird little gardeners in our pyjamas.”
“We can all be weird little gardeners in our pyjamas.”
Five spaces left on the 9.30am Garden Wildlife safari @kneppwilding.bsky.social this Friday - get involved! knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
Recording Garden Wildlife with Kate Bradbury - Knepp Estate, West Sussex
This garden wildlife workshop focuses on learning the skills to identify and record wildlife in your garden, from butterflies and bees to birds, insects and mammals. Book Garden Wildlife with Kate Bra...
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July 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Five spaces left on the 9.30am Garden Wildlife safari @kneppwilding.bsky.social this Friday - get involved! knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
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Congratulations to @katebradbury.bsky.social #wildlife gardening
We're also delighted to see @katebradbury.bsky.social on the longlist for Conservation Writing for One Garden Against the World!! Congratulations Kate🎉 #wainwrightprize #storiesthatconnect
July 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Congratulations to @katebradbury.bsky.social #wildlife gardening
Baby seagull has been adventuring this week: can fly down but not up. Spent three days on a neighbour’s garage. Then flew into the road (I managed to catch it and return to my neighbour’s roof. Will prob need to again). Eight weeks old tomorrow. Learn to fly UP baby seagull! 🐣🙈
July 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Baby seagull has been adventuring this week: can fly down but not up. Spent three days on a neighbour’s garage. Then flew into the road (I managed to catch it and return to my neighbour’s roof. Will prob need to again). Eight weeks old tomorrow. Learn to fly UP baby seagull! 🐣🙈
Excited to be back at Whichford Pottery this weekend, talking all things wildlife gardening. Come! www.whichfordpottery.com/events/kate-...
Kate Bradbury Talk Tickets
Saturday 12th JulyA Talk by Kate Bradbury: 'Gardening for Wildlife'Award-winning garden writer, broadcaster and wildlife specialist, Kate Bradbury will share her passion for wildlife gardening and wi...
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July 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Excited to be back at Whichford Pottery this weekend, talking all things wildlife gardening. Come! www.whichfordpottery.com/events/kate-...
Still a few spots on my Garden Wildlife safari @kneppwilding.bsky.social on the morning slot of Friday, 25 July (morning has sold out). Come do a Big Garden Butterfly Count with me in one of the most amazing gardens in the country, and see what else we can find! knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
Recording Garden Wildlife with Kate Bradbury - Knepp Estate, West Sussex
This garden wildlife workshop focuses on learning the skills to identify and record wildlife in your garden, from butterflies and bees to birds, insects and mammals. Book Garden Wildlife with Kate Bra...
knepp.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Still a few spots on my Garden Wildlife safari @kneppwilding.bsky.social on the morning slot of Friday, 25 July (morning has sold out). Come do a Big Garden Butterfly Count with me in one of the most amazing gardens in the country, and see what else we can find! knepp.co.uk/view/garden-...
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We're also delighted to see @katebradbury.bsky.social on the longlist for Conservation Writing for One Garden Against the World!! Congratulations Kate🎉 #wainwrightprize #storiesthatconnect
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We're also delighted to see @katebradbury.bsky.social on the longlist for Conservation Writing for One Garden Against the World!! Congratulations Kate🎉 #wainwrightprize #storiesthatconnect
And there are still tickets for today's Wildlife festival at the beautiful Cuckmere Haven - I'll be speaking along with others like @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social and Issy Tree from @kneppwilding.bsky.social : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuckmere-w...
Cuckmere Wildlife Festival
An amazing book festival featuring experts speaking about wildlife, conservation and the environment, and the creation of Cuckmere.
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June 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
And there are still tickets for today's Wildlife festival at the beautiful Cuckmere Haven - I'll be speaking along with others like @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social and Issy Tree from @kneppwilding.bsky.social : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuckmere-w...
Excited to be back at Hampton Court Flower Show next week! Come see me at 10.30am on the How-to stage: www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...
How To Stage | RHS Hampton Court 2025 / RHS Gardening
Dig into the How To Stage – your spot for tips, tricks, advice and inspiration for all gardening abilities. Hosted by podcaster Mike Palmer, explore must-see masterclasses to boost your gardening know...
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June 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Excited to be back at Hampton Court Flower Show next week! Come see me at 10.30am on the How-to stage: www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...
My Country Diary - on abundance, or the illusion of it: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Last spring feels a long time ago in the allotment | Kate Bradbury
Hove, East Sussex: The blackbird parents have food to feed chicks, hoverflies are booming and the peacock butterflies are back. Everything may be precarious, but this is all welcome
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June 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My Country Diary - on abundance, or the illusion of it: www.theguardian.com/environment/...