Wildlife Gardening
Best bird tables: how to choose the best table to get more birds into your garden
Attract birds into your wildlife garden with a bird table. We’ve shared a selection of our favourite bird tables – including hanging, standalone and ground bird tables – to suit a range of styles and budgets.
Best five bird feeds for garden birds
Many of us enjoy feeding our garden birds — but which bird feed is best to use, particularly in winter when many birds heavily rely on the food placed in your bird feeder? Here are five of our top expert choices to help you decide.
No Mow May 2023: the best excuse for not mowing the lawn
Banish your lawnmower to the shed this May and take part in No Mow May. Watch beautiful flowers come into bloom and help pollinators such as bees, butterflies and beetles.
How to make the best lawn for wildlife
A healthy lawn can be a huge benefit to wildlife, with long grass areas and wildflowers providing food and shelter to insects, birds and amphibians, as well as looking great! Jane Taylor, volunteer with Devon Wildlife Trust, shares her expert tips to making the best lawn for wildlife
Best nestboxes for garden birds
Help your local garden birds by providing them with somewhere to nest and raise their chicks. Here's a selection of our favourites garden bird nestboxes.
Best bee hotels for your wildlife garden in 2023
Provide shelter for your local solitary bees with a bee hotel. This guide reviews seven of the bee hotels available to buy, and how suitable they are.
Best window bird feeders
Get close-up views of your local birds with these window bird feeders – you don't even need to have a garden to attract them.
How to bring butterflies to your garden
Wildlife gardening expert Kate Bradbury reveals how British butterflies are doing - and how to encourage butterflies to your garden
Best wildflower seed bombs
Help insects and other pollinators with our pick of the best seed bombs packed full of nectar-filled wildflowers.
Bringing back the green: how to make urban gardens suitable for wildlife
Is it inevitable that wildlife cannot thrive in modern cities, or should we all be living up to our reputation as a gardening nation?
Best plants for bumblebees
Enjoy the buzz of bumblebees in your garden through the seasons with this selection of flowering plants that they'll enjoy visiting.
Best plants to grow for pollinators in your wildlife garden
Dave Goulson, author of The Garden Jungle, reveals some of the best plants you can grow to give garden pollinators and other species a helping hand.
Caterpillar foodplants for garden butterflies
Grow caterpillar foodplants so a range of butterfly species can lay their eggs in your garden, such as cuckoo flower for the orange-tip, or nettles for the peacock, red admiral and small tortoiseshell.
Best flowering plants for butterflies throughout the year
There’s a lot we can do to help butterflies, providing them with nectar to fuel journeys to find a mate, foodplants to lay eggs on and shelter to rest and hibernate. Author and wildlife gardener Kate Bradbury shares the best plants to provide nectar throughout spring, summer and autumn.
Best wildlife gardening books
We look at the variety of wildlife gardening books on the market and share some of our favourites.
New Year resolutions to help you get closer to nature in 2023
16 wild resolutions to help you connect with the natural world, become a better naturalist and help wildlife survive and thrive.
Best gifts for wildlife gardeners
Wondering what to buy the keen gardener in your life? Browse our list of product reviews and be inspired.
5 ways you can help wildlife this winter
The RSPCA shares its top tips on how to care for the creatures that visit your garden during winter.
How to make compost and attract wildlife to your garden
There are many excellent reasons why you should make compost. It is an effective and simple way to recycle, and it provides a valuable resource that will encourage a healthy diversity of wildlife in your garden. Here is our expect compost guide to compost, explaining how to make it and use it to attract wildlife.
How to make a garden bird nestbox
With a little preparation, it’s inexpensive and straightforward to make a home for nesting and roosting birds in your garden. Ornithologist, presenter and author Dan Rouse explains how in this step-by-step guide.
Garden bird nestbox guide: which species use them, how and when to clean them, how to put them up
Discover how to help your garden birds by putting up a nestbox, including advice on where to locate them, which species prefer which type of nestbox, and how to clean them during winter.
7 garden birds to spot this winter
Here are some of the birds to look out for in your garden this winter and the best food stuff to attract them.
How to make a small pond for wildlife
A tiny pond works well in a small garden or even on a balcony, and is safe for children to make and watch.
How to identify and attract pollinators to your garden
Learn how to identify common pollinators in your wildlife-friendly garden with our expert guide.