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Simple ways to bring wildlife to your garden
Wildlife friendly gardens don’t need to be messy or overgrown. Find out more about how to integrate pollinator friendly features to encourage all sorts of creatures to the garden.
The Garden Design Co, who brought the award-winning ‘Living Landscape Garden’ to BBC Gardeners’ World Live with the Michael Wheat Group, have shared some to make your garden a haven for wildlife…
Find out more about their top tips below .
Wildlife friendly gardens – despite their often go out and negative connotations- do n’t ask to be mussy , overgrown and unruly patches of land to attract wildlife .
That is how ‘ The Living Landscape ’ garden has been design to demonstrate . Combining both a manicured and controlled landscape with wildlife friendly feature is the most virtual elbow room to bring out or encourage wildlife back into your garden . It is n’t necessary to devote your entire distance to wildlife to make it well-disposed read on to ascertain how wildlife and world can live in harmony and flourish once again .
Inspired by ‘ The Living Landscape ’ garden , which win the award for Best Show Garden Construction at BBC Gardeners ’ World Live , here are some suggestion of simple fashion to integrate wildlife friendly areas into your garden .
Introduce water
pee is nature ’s philosopher’s stone . A piss feature is grotesque way to advance all walk of wildlife into your garden , including birds and crucial worm in the ecosystem .
You will be amazed by what even a modest amount of pee will bring to your garden in footing of wildlife . A modest tub or a full-grown pool , just look on wildlife flood tide in when water is cheeseparing .
Top tips
leave alone grass uncut
Butterflies especially , benefit from uncut skunk as it make a habitat for them to lie their eggs .
leave eatage uncut provides food for rise larvae , while ambrosia - filled flowers feed grownup butterflies , moths and other insects . Bees also benefit from reduced lawn veer schedule as the flowers in the lawn furnish nectar for them .
Provide native trees
There is nothing better than aboriginal plants for our wildlife . aboriginal shrubs and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree provide the best pick for wildlife , ply habit for insects , flowers for our bees and berry and fruit for our mammals and birds , but any tree is better than none !
These simple ways will have a huge impingement on wildlife in your garden and more small things we can all take part in the quicker our wildlife can recoup and brandish again hand in hand with mankind .
feel inspired?Take a look at The Garden Design Co.who design and built ‘ The Living Landscape ’ garden with mate Michael Wheat Groupat BBC Gardeners ’ World springy 2022.Click here to retrieve out more about the garden .
New class , new garden , new tendency !
We ’re through the garden logic gate into 2023 , with a host of gardening trends blooming throughout the nation . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying heights of popularity , to the coloring material of the yr ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full listing of trends .
To get up nigh and personal with invigorated garden breathing in , new flora , the late gardening outfit and more , join us in 2023 .
Colour of the Year 2023
Hand - picked by Pantone , the colour of the year has been named as ‘ Viva Magenta .
Pantone describe the colour as‘brave and fearless , and a pulsating colour whose ebullience promote a joyous and optimistic solemnization , writing a newfangled narrative . ’
Discover a man of colour and scent in the stunningFloral Marquee , bursting with accolade - win nursery and display .
Sustainable gardening
Whilst your garden might seem to already be very green , it can always be greenish !
Discover ways you may make horticulture more sustainable , like upcycling common items to make stylish feature film . What was a pallet , hessian bag , bits of pipework , and tin cans , could become a planter , raise bag , water features , and wildlife habitats .
Be prompt by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine editorial team as they ’re joined by expert to give bakshis and advice .
Grow your own food
Looking to go from soil to supper this year ? Get bright advice from the National Allotment Society at the event .
Peat-free gardening
study about the latest peat - spare compost from exhibitors who can pop the question font - to - cheek advice .
Indoor gardening
foliation does n’t just belong out of doors – bring nature indoors and be inspired by the Houseplant Hub .
Mindful gardening
Beautiful Borders returns with this twelvemonth ’s paper ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you space savvy ideas .
Gardening on a budget
Discover different ways you may permit your garden bloom under a tighter budget , with advice from expert gardeners .
Fermented foods
chit-chat the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with free entry with your ticket ! ) and discover the latest foodie trend .
Feeling inspired ? chance out what else is happening at BBC Gardeners ’ World be this June !
