
Wild your garden
In this action resource page, find out how to 'wild' your garden, from creating a dead hedge to managing invasive plants.
Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too!
Putting together a log pile will create a village for all things creepy and crawly. In turn, this busy community will attract birds, hedgehogs and frogs looking to snack on a tasty morsel. Perhaps the most spectacular garden deadwood denizen is the 50 mm-long stag beetle, which is found in light soils south of a line from the Wash to Bristol. Stag beetle larva stays in old wood for up to six years before emerging as an adult, ready to mate!
You can build up the logs to form your ‘minibeast village’ in a variety of ways:
This busy community will attract birds, hedgehogs and frogs looking to snack on a tasty morsel
In this action resource page, find out how to 'wild' your garden, from creating a dead hedge to managing invasive plants.
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
Some cosmetics, soaps, washing-up liquids and cleaning products can be harmful to wildlife with long-lasting effects.