Living Lawns
The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are calling on gardeners to reimagine their lawns this summer as they launch their ‘Bring your lawn to life’ initiative on Wednesday 22nd…
The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are calling on gardeners to reimagine their lawns this summer as they launch their ‘Bring your lawn to life’ initiative on Wednesday 22nd…
Wild privet is a shrub of hedgerows, woodlands and scrub, but is also a popular garden-hedge plant. It has white flowers in summer and matt-black berries in winter that are very poisonous.
Skokholm Wardens, Richard and Giselle, remember Howard Driver, long-term Skokholm volunteer and friend.
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Guillemots really know how to live life on the edge – quite literally! They nest tightly packed on steep ledges and cliffs around the coast. This may sound like a strange nesting spot, but it…
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
Build your own bug mansion and attract a multitude of creepy crawlies to your garden.
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Solitary bees are important pollinators and a gardener’s friend. Help them by building a bee hotel for your home or garden and watch them buzz happily about their business.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
With food, water and shelter scarce over the winter months, give your garden birds a treat with an edible Christmas wreath.