Welcome in wildlife

Wildlife needs food, shelter and breeding sites and gardens are increasingly providing this – smaller gardens often more so, squeezed as they are into urban areas. Nurture your hedges for the dense cover they offer, rather than replace them with a fence. Grow a wide range of plants such as climbers, shrubs and trees, and leave seedheads and fading stems standing to provide winter shelter and food. Set up homes such as insect hotels, nesting boxes and these woven roosting pockets hung in trees.