How to provide bushes for nesting birds
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In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
No matter how big the space you have, you can please both people and wildlife with a majestic herb garden. Planting a herb garden will not only allow you easy access to seasoning for your food, but will also attract pollinators like bees and butterflies into your garden. Herb gardens can be planted in raised beds, borders, containers or windowboxes – any space will do!
Please people and wildlife with a herb garden!
If you use planters and group them together, you will also provide shelter for wildlife between them and increase your watering efficiency. You can use troughs, hanging baskets or terracotta pots for your wildlife-friendly plants.
Top ten wildlife-friendly herbs:
- Rosemary - Rosmarinus officinalis
- Caraway - Carum carvi
- Hyssop - Hyssopus officinalis
- English lavender - Lavandula angustifolia
- Common sage - Salvia officinalis
- Wild thyme - Thymus polytrichus
- Fennel - Foeniculum vulgare
- Chives - Allium schoenoprasum
- Common mint - Mentha spicata
- Wild marjoram - Origanum vulgare
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More ways you can help bees
The best plants for bees and pollinators
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Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
How to clean nestboxes and bird feeders
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Nestboxes can harbour parasites so it is good practice to take them down at the end of the season and give them a clean. Likewise it is important to keep bird feeders clean to stop the spread of diseases.
Recycle and reuse
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Recycle, upcycle - and make do and mend! Production of household waste needs to decrease by 33% by 2037 to reach emissions targets. So get out that needle and thread!
Do a litter pick or beach clean!
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Be a wildlife saviour and do a litter pick or beach clean!
How to make a hedge for wildlife
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Hedges provide important shelter and protection for wildlife, particularly nesting birds and hibernating insects.