Expert tips on plants and flowers to attract birds
If you’re wondering how to add wildlife-friendly plants to your garden and attract more birds, here are some great
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Building a Natural Defence Against Climate Change
Guest blog: in an extract from her new book, The Climate Change Garden, author Kim Stoddart explains how working with wildlife will help bring a natural …
Give wildlife a helping hand this summer
Summer is great for us but the hot weather, combined with our summer gardening activities, can prove a challenge for wildlife. Here’s how you can help the …
The June Gap
June is the month of transition between spring and summer and brings with it the June gap. A month of long days, balmy nights and hopefully plenty of glorious …
Winter Help For Bees
Bees are in trouble and the fact is that we need them just as much as they need us. Our countryside used to provide everything needed to sustain a …
Helping your Garden Wildlife this Summer
If you enjoy your garden wildlife then here’s some tips to help and encourage them this
Sunflower Giraffe – A brand new giant!
To celebrate 2015 being the Year of the Sunflower Suttons is introducing 14 new varieties so there’s more to choose from than ever! Sunflowers are easy to …
Lupins – Aged to Perfection
Lupins, that cottage garden favourite, will have been in flower for a few weeks now and the flower spikes will be beginning to fade. Don’t just sit there – …
Combatting Slugs – ‘au naturel’
The scourge of our flower beds and veg plots, the humble slug is quite a nuisance, devouring your prized plants overnight and leaving silvery trails across the …
The Ultimate Slug killer
So here I was happily planting out some tomatoes in the garden when my daughter asks innocently “ What’s that?” A hedgehog , I reply, “What is it …