Birds in your garden
January 15, 2020If you follow some basic rules in your garden, you'll make it more attractive for a wide variety of bird…
Native spring-flowering bulbs for wildlife
January 15, 2020Spring is a very important season for wildlife gardening. Early spring flowers are vital for early insects and the birds…How to plan a wildlife hedge
January 8, 2020Wildlife hedges are planted mainly for their wildlife value. Their use in controlling stock or people is not necessarily important.…
An introduction to wildlife gardening
January 8, 2020Wildlife gardening is for everyone You do not need any particular level of expertise to start a wildlife garden. There…Creating and managing a patch of wet grassland
October 24, 2019Our tendency to drain large areas of land for agriculture and housing means we have lost many of our natural…
Make your garden a home for hedgehogs
September 3, 2019The number of hedgehogs living in rural areas has plummeted by more than half since the year 2000. This comes…Green gardening without peat
June 11, 2019Peat is, without a doubt, great for growing plants in. So why should we not use peat in our gardens?…
Gardening for bees
July 12, 2018We often consider gardening something that we do for ourselves. And this is great. Gardening for bees (and us) is…
How to build a fence
September 19, 2017Fences are sometimes used to protect newly planted trees or to enclose areas which need to regenerate. They control access…How to build or repair a dry stone wall
August 15, 2017Learn the art of dry stone walling... Building with dry stone is one of the earliest skills developed by humans. Dry…
