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No Mow – Stop Mowing and Leave a Patch Wild
Read more: No Mow – Stop Mowing and Leave a Patch WildWildflowers play a central role in making your garden more wildlife friendly. That is because they provide an important source of nectar and pollen for our (local) pollinators! The climate crisis, industrial agriculture and rapid urbanisation are all threats to both our native wildflower habitats and our local pollinators. Creating space in your garden where these insects can feed and breed is thus a crucial step towards strengthening our local pollinator populations as well as supporting other forms of wildlife that feed on these insects such as bats…
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Log piles and Dead Wood for Wildlife
Read more: Log piles and Dead Wood for WildlifeLog Piles While you can build proper hedgehog homes, you can also just stack pallets on top of each other to create a shelter for hedgehogs or “even stacks of woods are fine” says chairman and chief horticultural advisor for the Gardening In association, Dan Ori. Log shelters or piles are also great hiding places for many insects which will then attract other wildlife looking to munch on them such as frogs, birds hedgehogs. And log piles in the sun are great spaces for solitary bees…
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Wildflowers for our Pollinators
Read more: Wildflowers for our PollinatorsWhy Wildflowers are so important? Wildflowers play a central role in making your garden more wildlife friendly. That is because they provide an important source of nectar and pollen for our (local) pollinators! Ever expanding intensive agriculture and urbanisation threaten native wildflower habitat, with more than 97% of British wildflower meadows already being lost since WWII. This, combined with extreme weather conditions as a result of the climate crisis and increased pesticide use, creates the perfect storm for our native pollinating insects. According to…
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How to Support Swifts
Read more: How to Support SwiftsSwifts have declined by more than 50% in just the last 20 years; Conservationists think that a lack of nest sites could be partly to blame. By installing a nest box, we can give a swift a place to rest and raise a family. Through our Wilder Gardens project we are aiming to provide the foraging in the garden for the swifts and are encouraging folk to erect a nest box and help us look after them from May to August. This article gives you a step by step guide (with…
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How to Support Bats
Read more: How to Support BatsBats are important to our ecosystems. For example, some plants depend on bats for pollination and the spreading of their seeds. Bats can also provide a natural form of pest control since their food sources are mostly insects including mosquitoes. Bats, like hedgehogs, are also referred to as an ‘indicator species’ which means they’re like a barometer for the health of our local environment. If bats are thriving, most likely their habitats and food sources will be too. While sick or declining bat populations might indicate dwindling…
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How to Help Hedgehogs
Read more: How to Help HedgehogsHedgehogs are an important and beloved companion of our garden environments. While they have a varied diet hedgehogs are referred to as insectivores since they like to munch on many different garden invertebrates including snails and slugs, beetles, caterpillars and worms. In that way, they provide a natural pest control for your gardens! Moreover, hedgehogs are known as a so called ‘indicator species’, meaning they can be seen as a sort of barometer for the health of our local environment. In other words, when hedgehogs are well and thriving,…
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Creating a home for bees
Read more: Creating a home for beesBees are important pollinators and vital to growing food and thus to our survival. They also pollinate trees and plants which provide food and shelter for other wildlife. Habitat loss due to urbanisation, the converting of land for agricultural and increased use of pesticides all threaten our local bee population and have lead to a global decline in wild bees. Moreover, the effects of the climate crisis and the associated extreme weather patterns put an increasingly big strain on our bees. Aside of providing crucial food sources for…
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