
How to provide bushes for nesting birds
In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.
Any pond can become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats – the best natural garden pest controllers! Your pond needn’t be big. A washing-up bowl, a large plant pot, or a disused sink could all be repurposed as ponds, providing you make sure creatures can get in and out.
Think big, start small!
In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to support a wide range of insects that couldn't survive in urban areas otherwise. It is also a great way of avoiding tools such…
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.