Would you like your garden to be more nature-friendly?

Are you wondering what plants to get, and how to manage them?

For many years now, Charlie and Marion Heasman have been central to making Skerries a more pollinator-friendly town. They are the driving forces behind the Biodiversity (Pollinator) Action Plan, giving the rare Large Carder Bee the best possible chance to thrive by creating wildflower meadows and pollinator corridors.

If you have seen the beautiful and flourishing community garden at Skerries Mills, then you have witnessed another of their areas of activity. And they are of course behind the annual Skerries Bee Festival.

Many local people have privately sought their advice in making their gardens more pollinator-friendly.

Charlie shared his insights with us in this illustrated afternoon talk, just in time for the gardening season.

Photographs of butterflies and bumble bees were taken during Charlie and Marion’s Skerries Eco Festival Pollinator Walk by Leo Carroll.

Couldn’t make it? Here is the video of his talk!