How to build a pond
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
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.
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
A non-native species originating from Asia, the harlequin ladybird is prevalent in towns and gardens.
Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.
Growing up and living in the countryside for much of her life, Helen is used to big wide open spaces and loves being outside. She enjoys coming to the Centre for Wildlife Gardening, as it’s like…