Homes for Wildlife

If you love the creatures in your garden, you'll love our Homes for Wildlife project. This is the place to ask and answer questions about making your backyard wildlife-friendly.

Gardening for wildlife

Follow the adventures of Adrian Thomas, our wildlife gardening expert, and be inspired to create your own wildlife haven on your doorstep. Adrian posts here every Monday and Friday without fail, so make it a date and drop by!

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  • Blog post: Observation observation observation

    As you may have gathered by now, I like to base my gardening for wildlife on observation: there’s nothing I like more than a good old nosey around a garden seeking out which creature is using which plant. And so on Saturday I pootled along to a National Trust garden in Sussex called Nymans to indulge...
  • Blog post: Humming hedgerows

    I look for some of my wildlife gardening inspiration from gardens, and some from the countryside – and today was a countryside day. And even if I had been blindfolded, I could have spotted the ‘Wildlife Plant of the Day’ with my ears, it was humming so loudly! It was of course Ivy...
  • Blog post: Butterfly Banana Banquets

    Most of my blogs are going to be about what I call ‘proper gardening’, but sometimes there is a little wildlife trick that is too good not to try. This one involves mushy bananas! Now usually when I have an overripe banana, it goes into my syrup flapjacks, but not in autumn. At this time...
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