Wildlife Gardening
Tips and advice on how to encourage and look after garden friendly wildlife.
From giving creepy crawlies the five star treatment with a home made bug hotel, to selecting plants that will attract the beneficial insects that every gardener wants.
Garden fence or hedge? Considering your options.
on 2nd March 2020Fences and hedges are the most popular ways of defining property boundaries. When we buy a house we generally find there are already hedges or fences in place and we don’t give them any further thought beyond giving the hedge an annual trim or replacing a broken fence panel after a particularly nasty storm. But
... read moreWe Should Fight For Our Beneficial Bugs
on 15th April 2019Turn the clock back to 1950 and the English garden was a different place. The atmosphere would have been alive with insects – an active, buzzy and hazy ecological environment full of tiny creatures. With just 1% of bugs actually considered ‘pests’, it’s likely that just about this entire airborne community was made up of
... read moreGardeners Have Just Gotta Love The Bugs
on 21st March 2019In the past spotting a bug or creepy crawly on the leaves of a favourite perennial or prize-winning vegetable would have struck horror into the hearts of most gardeners. Retribution would have been swift and almost always involved reaching for the insecticide to take down the invading invertebrate. Nowadays gardeners are much better versed in
... read moreWhy Every Garden Needs a Bug Hotel
on 27th June 2018Bugs, critters, creepy crawlies – call them what you like. When it comes to insects people can have mixed emotions. But love them or hate them there’s no getting away from the fact that insects play a vital role in our gardens and are essential for sustaining our natural environment. If we want our gardens
... read moreLooking After Garden Wildlife In Winter
on 29th November 2016A landscaped garden is not just a space built for your enjoyment, it is also an important habitat for many species of wildlife where the trees, structures and flowers form an eco-system that provides…
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