Wild West Yorkshire

Recent pages from Richard Bell’s award-winning nature diary, now in its tenth year

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American Land-cress: Just a half metre square of this easy-to-grow alternative to watercress can supply you with peppery-tasting leaves for sandwiches and salads right through the year.

Plug Plants Propagating your own plants is the green way to grow your vegetables but to give us a head start at this time of year we've gone for plug plants; instant cabbages and lollo rosso!

Plants by the Pond: Are you so busy that you feel you never have time to draw? Do you just snatch the odd sketch during the odd idle moment? It's probably time for drastic action: on a real spring morning (that's a change!) I gave myself a few hours to draw by the pond.

‘earthy through and through. You can feel the garden, the weather, watch the wildlife and smell the seasons through its pages’

And now read the book . . .

EXPLORE WOODS & WATERFALLS, cloughs, crags & coast, old chapels & churches, markets & moors, from the wilder side of a back garden to the wide open spaces of the High Peak in these highly praised sketchbooks, all drawn on location and handwritten by the author.

For further details of my published work please see: www.willowisland.co.uk

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Going Greener Gong

"the inaugural award of the Going Greener Gong goes to Richard Bell for Wild West Yorkshire - he's a real stalwart of Nature Diaries and I know has inspired others."

Katherine Tyrrell, Blogging Art in 2007, Making a Mark Awards

Thank you Katherine, it's good to recognised - that's my first award in 10 years (since October, 1998) of nature blogging!

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My thanks to Dalenet, host and sponsors of Wild West Yorkshire since 1998.

‘Richard Bell could be another David Attenborough, with his tales of astonishing plants and carefully observed wildlife’

Dalesman

‘well-observed watercolours of plants and bird and pond life through the year’

Sunday Times

‘wonderful pictures of everyday things’

Daily Telegraph

‘A highly-readable narrative gives a personal slant to his observations’

Best of British Magazine