Nature friendly gardening

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.

Use the blank canvas of your new build garden to make your new home a home for wildlife too!

A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.

By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.

Introduce more wildlife features into a small space using pots and containers.

Bumble bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them in your garden by planting bumble bee-friendly flowers.

Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.

Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife!

A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.

You can booost biodiversity by letting local verges and green spaces grow wilder, at any scale. Here are some top tips.

Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.

It doesn’t matter what size your space is, there’s always room for wildflowers! Set aside an area of lawn, part of a border, or even a large container and watch the bees and butterflies buzz in.