Garden for Wildlife

This page is to be a list of some of the wildlife gardening resources I have found for convenience and reference.

Many of my wildlife articles also contain advice about gardening for their subject, you can see those using my Article-Wildlife tag.

• • Natural England

• • Eden – attract wildlife to your garden

• • RSPB – make a home for wildlife

• • RHS – plants for pollinators

• • Butterfly conservation – plants for butterflies, caterpillars and moths

• • Gardener’s World – plants for bees

• • Bumblebee conservation – bee kind tool Assesses how ‘bee kind’ your garden is and suggests further plants

• • Sussex Wildlife Trust – Wildlife gardening

• • B and Q video on creating a wildlife garden (Obviously a bit of an advert for B and Q, but it’s a nice little video and it doesn’t push ‘buy this’ hard)

• • BTO gardens and wildlife

• • British beekeeper’s association gardening for bees

• • BBC nature, what to feed the wildlife in your garden

• • How to identify garden bird nests

• • Keep rats out of your compost

• • Foxes

• • Willows hedgehog rescue – gardening for wildlife

• • Bee friendly with Winnie the Pooh

• • Bat conservation trust – Gardening for bats

• • Wildlife garden project

• • How to plant a hedgerow

• • Wildlife gardening 101

• • Choosing a nest box, more here

• • Wildlife plants

• • Solitary bee hotels

• • Dave Goulson bee plants

• • 26 plants that attract ladybugs/ladybirds

• • Wildflowers by season

• • Guide to bee nest boxes by Bumblebee conservation trust

Feeding birds including human foods:

• • Food scraps

• • What food

• • big fat no

• • Christmas food

A video, by LASI Bee Research & Outreach, about quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other insects can be seen here and the link starts the video at 2 mins 46 where there is a graph of their results.

I also have a little story that includes tips for helping sparrows in your garden; Sydney Sparrow

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