How to make a bee hotel
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.
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.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
With food, water and shelter scarce over the winter months, give your garden birds a treat with an edible Christmas wreath.
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.
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