How to grow a wildlife- friendly vegetable garden
Learn about companion planting, friendly pest control, organic repellents and how wildlife and growing vegetables can go hand in hand.
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Learn about companion planting, friendly pest control, organic repellents and how wildlife and growing vegetables can go hand in hand.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden.
Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.
Print it off, colour it in and create your own butterfly mask.
The kingfisher blue stripes of a blue-rayed limpet are a magical sight whilst rockpooling - you'll need to go on a very low tide though as their favourite home is on kelp.
This day-flying moth is found on flowery meadows, often in the company of other moths and butterflies.
Make a beautiful butterfly print with your paints.
Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?
Provide for bees and butterflies all year round by planting shrubs and plants that flower at different times.