Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round. Attracting birds to your garden is easy: supplement naturally available food with bird food, and watch them flock in! Remember to keep feeders and tables clean, so the birds stay healthy and disease-free, and position your feeders in a relatively open area away from predators - the birds will feel safer and visit more! Make sure food is available at all times as birds have different needs throughout the year, such

We discard lots food waste every year. This ends up in landfill, where it takes many years to completely degrade and, while they do break down, they emit methane into the atmosphere. We should look to our food consumption to reduce waste. Freeze your leftovers for another day. Plan meals and write a shopping list, only buy what is needed. Then compost unavoidable food waste like vegetable cuttings. The benefits of composting your garden and kitchen waste are two-fold. You’

Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too! Putting together a log pile will create a village for all things creepy and crawly. In turn, this busy community will attract birds, hedgehogs and frogs looking to snack on a tasty morsel. Perhaps the most spectacular garden deadwood denizen is the 50 mm-long stag beetle, which is found in light soils south of a line from the Wash to Bristol. Stag beetle larva st

Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to support a wide range of insects that couldn't survive in urban areas otherwise. It is also a great way of avoiding tools such as lawnmowers that are powered by fossil fuels! Option 1 - Let your grass grow long Long grass, peppered with flowers, is one of the rarest habitats in our well-tended gardens, yet it is incredibly beneficial for wildlife. Pa

Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies. Many of our prettiest insects feed on nectar, so need flowering plants for their survival. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies all need sources of nectar and pollen to thrive. As they travel from flower to flower, they also pollinate them, enabling them to set seed or bear fruit. So, setting up a nectar café benefits both your plants and you, allowing you to enjoy the flitting an

Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique. Companion planting is all about creating areas of plants that provide benefits to each other. In practice, this means that plants that complement each other are placed together, and those that don’t, are kept apart. By planting 'companion' plants among other plants it can help them to grow by either attracting beneficial insects, and repelling others, or by acting as