How to make a coastal garden
Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.
Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.
Hedges provide important shelter and protection for wildlife, particularly nesting birds and hibernating insects.
Attracting wildlife to your work will help improve their environment – and yours!
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.
Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too!
Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
Gardening doesn’t need to be restricted to the ground - bring your walls to life for wildlife! Many types of plants will thrive in a green wall, from herbs and fruit to grasses and ferns.
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.
Plant wildflower with seed bombs!
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.