Tag: Lucs
Luc’s garden safari about winter: ‘Your garden is still full of life’
Suppose you are planning to make your garden greener, then the beginning of winter is the time of year. Just throw out the tiles, dig a large hole and place…
Luc’s Garden Safari in November: ‘Not every mushroom looks like a mushroom’
It has been hot and humid the past few weeks. We have not had night frost yet, the soil has not cooled down yet. Nice and warm and sultry, especially…
Luc’s Garden Safari: Your Ivy is Worth Gold
Biologist Luc Hoogenstein is on safari in Amersfoort, in the garden of Alida Pelgrim. Luc: “Try sticking an upside-down umbrella or an empty pizza box between the ivy and shaking…
Luc’s Garden Safari: This snail is eating its own kind
Not often has there been so much talk about snails in the summer months. About slugs in particular. With the soaking wet spring, the lack of frost this winter and…
Wout and Luc’s hemp helps Utrecht’s climate approach: ‘This is fantastic’
The Netherlands wants to no longer emit greenhouse gases by 2050. That still seems far away, but a lot still needs to be done. To achieve the climate goals, Utrecht…
Luc’s garden safari: ‘spiders, snails, bumblebees and butterflies: there is more life on your roof terrace than you might think!’
Utrecht – In June, Luc’s garden safari moves to a roof terrace in the center of Utrecht. Perhaps not the most nature-friendly environment, you might think. Yet with many flowering…
Luc’s Garden Safari: ‘the firebug sometimes mates for a week at a time’
The fire bug is less dangerous than its name and appearance suggest. It is especially a good helper for the garden. Its diet consists of the sap of dead leaves,…
Luc’s Garden Safari: ‘the bumblebees we see in the garden now are this year’s queens’
Woerden – There has been some criticism about the weather in recent weeks. Rain, more rain and occasionally a day with very high temperatures. Spring starts as turbulently as winter…
Luc’s Garden Safari: save a bird’s life, take the net off your fat bun
Luc: “I actually experienced that once. At one point a neighbor came to me in our street. He said, Luc, can you come and help, because there is a great…
Luc’s Garden Safari: primal animals in your autumn garden
Anyone who now looks outside into the garden generally sees a somewhat dreary picture: it is wet, bleak and not very colorful. Does not matter. For those who look a…