Weird plants
From flowers that smell like wee to leaves that look like belly buttons, here are some of our strangest plants!
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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Bladder wrack
This brown seaweed lives in the mid shore and looks a bit like bubble wrap with the distinctive air bladders that give it its name.
Make a wigwam for plants
Grow all sorts of vegetables and flowers up this cool wigwam!
The best plants for bees and pollinators
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Bladder campion
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…
Marine
This is an amazing and little known world with corals, seahorses, whales, dolphins, seals and sharks!
How to plant a tree
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
Plant a bog garden
Make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature.
National Marine Week
From the beach and shoreline, to the seabed and deepest waters. Find out more about the importance of our marine world and the creatures that live there.
Marine animals spotter
Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?
Marine colouring sheet
Colour in the wonderful things that live under the sea.
How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.