How to use less plastic
Plastic waste and its damaging effect on our seas and natural world has been big news recently. Here's what you can you do about it.
Plastic waste and its damaging effect on our seas and natural world has been big news recently. Here's what you can you do about it.
Solitary bees are important pollinators and a gardener’s friend. Help them by building a bee hotel for your home or garden and watch them buzz happily about their business.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
Plant wildflower with seed bombs!
Build your own bug mansion and attract a multitude of creepy crawlies to your garden.
Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
The rose-red breast, large black cap and thick bill make the bullfinch easy to identify. A plump-looking bird of woodlands, hedgerows and orchards, it also frequents gardens.
Often growing in swathes along a roadside or field margin, the oxeye daisy is just as at home in traditional hay meadows. The large, white, daisy-like flowers are easy to identify.