How to plant a tree
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
Make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature.
Wavy hair-grass lives up to its name: its fine, hair-like leaves and delicate flower heads can be seen shaking in the breeze of a windswept moorland or heathland.
Use the blank canvas of your garden to make a home for wildlife.
The stately Grass-of-parnassus displays pretty, white flowers with green stripes. Once widespread, it is now declining as its wetland habitats are disappearing.
The common red soldier beetle is also known as the 'bloodsucker' for its striking red appearance, but it is harmless. It is a beneficial garden insect as the adults eat aphids, and the…
The common spangle gall wasp produces a small, disc-shaped growth, or 'gall', on the undersides of oak leaves. Inside the gall, the larvae of the wasp feed on the host tissues, but cause…
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
The London plane tree is, as its name suggests, a familiar sight along the roadsides and in the parks of London. An introduced and widely planted species, it is tough enough to put up with city…