How to provide water for wildlife
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
Flowering rush is a pretty rush-like plant of shallow wetland habitats, such as ponds, canals and ditches. Its cup-shaped, pink flowers appear in summer, brightening up the water's edge.
A plant of chalk and limestone grasslands and sand dunes, Yellow-wort has butter-yellow flowers. Its distinctive leaves sit opposite each other, but are fused together around the stem.
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Provide for bees and butterflies all year round by planting shrubs and plants that flower at different times.
Rowan loves the fresh smell and sight of the buttercups in the wildflower meadows at Besthorpe. It's a special place because there are precious few spots like this where she can spend time…
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…
The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting bumblebee-friendly flowers.
Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.