LAST week I gave a talk about trees at Salterbridge House near Cappoquin as part of the Waterford Garden Festival.

Bugs and other “creepy crawlies” in our gardens are not all to be stamped on and lots of creepy creatures do magnificent work in their native habitat, according to a wildlife expert involved in an upcoming garden festival.

THE rustic poet Patrick Kavanagh put it lyrically when he wrote that “ordinary things wear lovely wings”.