How to compost your waste
Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.
Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.
Plastic waste and its damaging effect on our seas and natural world has been big news recently. Here's what you can you do about it.
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.
Hedges provide important shelter and protection for wildlife, particularly nesting birds and hibernating insects.
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.
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.
Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too!
Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
Coastal gardening can be a challenge, but with the right plants in the right place, your garden and its wildlife visitors can thrive.