Blog: Wildlife gardening

Wild Writing by Nicola Chester

Wildlife gardening: how to grow a mini meadow

Meadows are truly special places, full of stunning wild flowers and alive with the colour and industry of insects such as butterflies. So why not make a miniature meadow in your garden! Ben's…

Wildlife gardening: Flowers to attract bees and butterflies

Ben's here to give you some ideas for the best plants for pollinators in your garden.

Put your garden to the test!

Our two-minute survey can score your garden and offer ideas to make it even better for wildlife, but why is this so important?

Swallows perched along a telegraph wire against a blue sky, The Wildlife Trusts

Getting Wild About Gardens

The buzz of a bee, the sweet scent of honeysuckle, these precious moments are not only a delight to experience in our gardens, they’re absolutely vital if we’re going to protect, restore and…

Wildlife gardening: how to make a log pile

Why not add a simple log pile to your garden and create great habitat for all sorts of wildlife?

Wildlife gardening: make your garden bat friendly

On a late summer’s evening there’s nothing quite as entertaining as settling down in a comfy garden chair to watch the bats come out to swish and swoop on their hunt for food.

Wildlife gardening: look after our worms

Worms are an easily overlooked part of the garden – they’re underground after all. But a garden with a healthy worm population is the starting point to one that’s alive with wildlife!