The best plants for bees and pollinators
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
The yellow, star-like flowers of Bog Asphodel brighten up our peat bogs, damp heaths and moors in early summer, attracting a range of pollinating insects.
Unlike blanket bog, which smothers vast tracts of the uplands, raised bogs are discrete entities, often individually named, and are mostly found within agricultural landscapes in the lowlands.
Bleak, treeless and often shrouded in low cloud, blanket bog can seem a desolate habitat. However, the wildness of the huge, empty landscapes and wide skies are compelling, as is the chance of…
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.
Find your local Wildlife Trust event and get stuck in to wild activities, talks, walks and much more.
The London plane tree is, as its name suggests, a familiar sight along the roadsides and in the parks of London. An introduced and widely planted species, it is tough enough to put up with city…
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
We are facing two critical global crises: the climate emergency and the loss of biodiversity. Abundant, healthy wildlife and a thriving environment are the answers to many of the challenges we…