Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Friends Dawn and Ann meet up every fortnight for a walk and a catch up on one of their local nature reserves.
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
Bringing a piece of your holiday home is a great way of keeping the memories alive – just make sure it’s wildlife-friendly!
Find out how you can make your local area more hedgehog friendly!
An uncommon hedgerow and woodland tree of central and eastern England, Purging buckthorn displays yellow-green flowers in spring, and poisonous, black berries in autumn.
Steep neutral lowland meadows, enclosed and divided by ancient and species rich hedgerows.
A small woodland and hedgerow tree, Spindle is most striking in the autumn when clusters of bright pink-and-orange berries hang from its twigs, providing food for mice, birds and even Red Foxes.…