Resources
Enhancing green spaces in London where all natural pollinators can thrive, and their habitats can be enjoyed by all.
To raise awareness and encourage planting, PLT creates resources to encourage and support pollinator-friendly planting. Visit our Planting Guide and Video pages to find the below resources.
Planting Guides
Videos
- David Domoney, Horticulturist and Broadcaster and Author, on pollinator variety and using your garden as a tool to attract them in this video he created for PLT.
- Rebecca Pow, former MP DEFRA Minister provides words of support for PLT at its September 2021 Official Launch.
PLT’s Six-Part Video Series:
PLT produced six videos about the importance of pollinators and the myriad of ways we can help them thrive.
- Episode 1: Your City Needs You: featuring Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers and PLT Board Member Anthony Bickmore on the impact of pollinator decline and how you can make a difference.
- Episode 2: David Domoney’s Five Star Plant Menu for Hungry Pollinators: featuring David Domoney, Horticulturist, Broadcaster and Author, on pollinator-friendly plants and how you can help pollinators thrive in your garden.
- Episode 3: City Gardeners – From Window Box to Open Spaces: featuring Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex and Founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and Miles Watson-Smyth, owner of Windowflowers, on creating ideal environments for pollinators.
- Episode 4: Creative Thinking About The City’s Natural Capital: featuring former Environment Minister, Richard Benyon, and Master of the Barber Surgeons, Tim Cutler, on urban infrastructure developments to help people and biodiversity thrive.
- Episode 5: How our Institutions are Greening our City: featuring architects Valerie Owen Le Vaillent and Chris Dyson, Dusty Gedge (President of the Federation of Green Roofs), and Colin Buttery (Head of Open Spaces for the City of London Corporation) on environmentally-friendly architecture and urban design.
- Episode 6: What You Can Do: featuring PLT’s Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE, Sir Tim Smit KBE (Co-Founder of the Eden Project) and Matt Somerville on creating pollinator-friendly environments.
Other videos
Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS): learn about the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology’s pollinator monitoring tool, and how you can get involved.
BBC on the risk of biodiversity loss: This video explains the impact humans have on biodiversity and what we risk in losing it.
PLT visits Kew Gardens (August 2021): featuring Dr Houke Koch, the leading scientist in the field of Pollinator Biological Chemistry at Kew, and PLT’s Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE and John Burton, on pollinator populations, behaviours and the importance of biodiversity corridors throughout London.
PLT green space audits: featuring Bumblebee Conservation Trust CEO Gill Perkins on pollinator habitat monitoring in City of London green spaces.
Kew Garden visit (June 2021): featuring PLT Board Members Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE, Anthony Bickmore, John Burton and Sue Green on PLT’s mission.
Citizen Science:
PLT not only relies on its own work to increase the biodiversity corridors throughout London. Click here to find out how you, on your own, can help PLT with its initiative by carrying out your own pollinator research.