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Country Focus: Invasive Plants and Wandering Minstrels

Invasive Plants and Wandering Minstrels

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, Invasive Plants and Wandering Minstrels

The next Japanese Knotweed and Cerdd/ed - following a Welsh bardic tradition

The garden plants threatening to invade our countryside and the musicians promoting a more sustainable approach to touring

How bird flu is decimating Wales' gannet population on Grassholm island off the coast of Pembrokeshire.

Calls for tougher penalties for dog owners after 46 ewes in a "horrifying attack" on a farm near Wrexham 

Could you have the next Japanese Knotweed or Himalayan Balsam growing in your garden? We speak to a PhD student about his work identifying ornamental garden plants with an invasive potential.  

We meet the former Red Arrows engineer in his first year as warden for Flat Holm island, off the coast of Cardiff.

And we meet the two musicians finding new ways of connecting post covid and promoting their album as they walk the Wales Coast Path

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