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Birds in your garden

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If you follow some basic rules in your garden, you’ll make it more attractive for a wide variety of bird species. If you provide shelter, food and water you will encourage them to visit your garden and even become residents. You will soon enjoy watching birds close to your home. Planting for birds Food for […]

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Wild garlic flowers

Native spring-flowering bulbs

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Spring is a very important season for wildlife gardening. Early spring flowers are vital for early insects and the birds that feed on them. Native wildflower bulbs tend to flower in the spring and there is a wide range of wonderful native spring-flowering bulbs that you can use in your garden and beyond. These include […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Woodlands

Small tortoiseshell butterflies on a buddleja flower

An introduction to wildlife gardening

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Wildlife gardening is for everyone You do not need any particular level of expertise to start a wildlife garden. There are only a few rights and wrongs that you will learn as you go along. You do not need much space. Even a window-box or a few pots is enough. A wildlife garden does not […]

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A field full of cuckooflower in spring

Creating and managing a patch of wet grassland

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Our tendency to drain large areas of land for agriculture and housing means we have lost many of our natural wetlands. This has contributed to erosion, loss of habitat and flooding. When creating a garden that attracts wildlife, you need a diversity of habitats. An area of wet grassland can help transform your garden into […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Gardens, Grassland, How To

Sundew - a carnivorous bog plant

Green gardening without peat

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Peat is, without a doubt, great for growing plants in. So why should we not use peat in our gardens? Well, peat bogs are home for a wide range of plants, insects and bird life. Since 1999 the development of commercial alternatives to peat has increased. The media has also made efforts to help spread […]

Filed Under: Gardening, How To, Why

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