Finding the best gardening gifts can be surprisingly difficult. Whether you're shopping for an experienced gardener, a new plant lover or someone who simply enjoys spending time outdoors, the right present should be useful, thoughtful and ideally something they'll enjoy for years. From quality gardening tools and beautiful plants to wildlife-friendly gifts and relaxing garden … Continue reading Practical Gardening Gifts for Every Budget
We look at adding homes to our garden for a variety of species such as Hedgehogs and Birds, but we often forget about the species that need homes that perhaps need a bit of a speciality space created for them. Let's focus on reptiles, amphibians and small mammals and lets build them a hibernaculum in … Continue reading DIY: Hibernaculum
Planting for wildlife is a no brainer. It's something that is drilled into us continuously, that we can provide habitats, food and nesting grounds for a variety of different species if we only add some plants to our gardens - but where do you start? In this guide, we look at the various different plants … Continue reading Complete Guide to Plants
We all would absolutely love to have a garden pond filled to the brim with aquatic plants and creatures that thrive in a space we created. But ultimately, it's hard to create a pond but we still want to provide a space for aquatic nature to thrive - and that is where micro-ponds come in! … Continue reading DIY: Micro Pond
January is here and many of you will be partaking in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch counting the different birds coming to your school grounds. For this month, we are setting you the challenge of counting your Winter Birds in your grounds. Whilst you're counting and identifying the different species, we want you to focus … Continue reading Schools Challenge – Winter Birds
Ever thought about building your own nest box, or want a box with a specific hole size for a species in your garden? Look no further than this simply guide to creating and building your own garden nest box. To begin, you will need: Tape measure and PencilWooden plank from a sustainable source (we used … Continue reading DIY: Nest Box
The newest version of the UK Red List has been announced and there are many of our favourite species have since joined the list. The report named, Birds of Conservation Concern 5 by some of the UK's leading bird conservation organisations, which assesses 245 regularly occurring species. 70 of the 245 species which were assessed … Continue reading New UK Red List
The honeybee is under threat, posing a catastrophe to the earth’s ecosystem and life as we know it. Without honeybee pollination, we’d lose on average 70 out of 100 crop species that feed 90% of our population. According to the University of Reading, the honeybee population has halved in the last 20 years, with climate … Continue reading Guest Blog: A mission to save the Honeybee
Being a first language Welsh speaker and learning English later on in my childhood, aswell as having the benefit of speaking to the media and local birders through Welsh. Welsh names for wildlife, birds, in particular, has always been something I have been proud of knowing and often times that make me laugh or think … Continue reading Wonderful Welsh Bird Names
Feeding the birds is a fun activity for children to get involved in, it's a way they can clearly see what they're doing is good by the birds eating and coming to the garden. There's a lot of different things you can make for your garden birds - the funest and messiest is definitely making … Continue reading Kids: Bird treat making
