{"id":15371,"date":"2013-11-01T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ratedpeople.com\/blog\/?p=15371"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:49:03","slug":"how-to-create-a-wildlife-friendly-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ratedpeople.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-wildlife-friendly-garden","title":{"rendered":"How to create a wildlife friendly garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our gardens can be a haven for wildlife. 60% of our 3,148 animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years, but by providing wildlife friendly spaces for them to live, we can help protect the ones that we have left. I like the idea of sharing my garden with hedgehogs and house sparrows. They\u2019ve never caused me any harm and they do a very good job of controlling pests!<\/p>\n

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Last month, the RHS and The Wildlife Trusts combined forces to encourage us to put our gardens to good use. As part of their Wild About Gardens week, they\u2019ve communicated how we can make the most of our spaces and encourage wildlife to call them home. There are tasks for those spare two hours, tasks for the weekend and of course, tasks that you can do all year round to create a wildlife friendly garden.<\/p>\n

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The two hour task<\/h3>\n

Dead wood is both home and food for beetle grubs and other mini-beasts and it\u2019s these which will encourage birds, hedgehogs and frogs to check out your back garden. Insects\u00a0are a bird\u2019s chocolate cake! By creating a log pile, you\u2019ll provide a damp, cool space for insects\u00a0to escape from the summer heat and a warm shelter to hide from the winter frost.<\/p>\n

Channel your inner garden designer by placing the logs in a way that ups your garden’s appeal. You could scatter them in your borders to separate your plants or position them closer together in a random, \u201cI\u2019ve just thrown them down\u201d style. The closer together they are, the more beetle grubs you\u2019ll attract. Shade is what you\u2019re aiming for. If you’re ahead of schedule, you could add excess dead wood into a bug hotel structure, like the one below.<\/p>\n

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The weekend job<\/h3>\n

Not everybody likes the idea of attracting more creepy-crawlies to the garden. If you\u2019re more comfortable with the visually beautiful animal species\u2019, a night-scented garden will bring more moths your way. The perfumed appeal of the flowers means that they\u2019re the perfect finishing touch to garden parties that carry on way into the night too.<\/p>\n

The Evening Primrose, Honeysuckle, White Profusion and the Caryopteris x clandonensis are all good fragrant flower picks, ranging from white to blue in colour.<\/p>\n

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All year round activity<\/h3>\n

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Instead of cutting your flower borders back, leave the dead stems in place all winter. Birds can pick at the seed heads and the stems provide shelter for lacewings and ladybirds to hide from the winter chill. If you can bear the sight of overgrown grass, adding in wild and untamed areas will take that step further. It could be the perfect excuse for not mowing the lawn!<\/p>\n

For more information and further examples of two hour, weekend and all year round tasks, visit the Wild About Gardens website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

If you need help designing and planting your wildlife friendly garden, post your job in our Gardener <\/a>category. Tradespeople will contact you to quote and you\u2019ll be able to view their profile pages, complete with customer ratings, to help you decide who to hire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our gardens can be a haven for wildlife. 60% of our 3,148 animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years, but by providing wildlife friendly spaces for them to live, we can help protect the ones that we have left. 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