How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Chwilio
Common squid
The common squid is a weird and wonderful predator found all around our coasts.
Get started with your spotter sheets
You can use this tool to create simple nature spotting sheets to print off and use outside.
Dog cockle
This long-lived bivalve can be found buried in the sand on the south and west coasts of the UK.
Common puffball
This common fungus puffs out clouds of spores when it's mature.
Make an insect hotel
Make bees and other insects right at home on your patch by making an insect hotel
Brown shrimp
The brown shrimp blends perfectly with its seabed home and is found all around the coasts of the UK.
Children's Mental Health Week 2021
Looking after our mental health is important. Read about ways to stay wild and well, by connecting with and being in nature.
Children's Mental Health Week
Looking after our mental health is important. Read about ways to stay wild and well, by connecting with and being in nature.
Autumn
There is plenty of wildlife to see in autumn. This is a time of nature's plenty, with a wonderful hedgerow harvest of blackberries, rose hips, crab apples, hazelnuts and seeds. Have a look at our top autumn wildlife.
Sea lettuce
Sea lettuce is unmistakeable - most often a bright green and always translucent, it is found on all UK coasts.
European hedgehog
These beloved spiny mammals come out at night to hoover up beetles, worms and other invertebrates.