SMALL WAYS TO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE

Help hedgehogs

Get busy and enter your street into the Britain’s Best Hedgehog Street competition, www.hedgehogstreet.org.

Sow hardy annuals

Sow poppies, cornflowers and calendulas direct into soil now, which will overwinter and spring up next year.

Cut back penstemons

They’ll give you a continual flush of blooms if you keep cutting dead stems back to a leaf. You’ll be helping bees, too.

Recycle water

Paddling pools, tumble dryers and washing up bowls are eco-friendly sources of water to reuse on parched gardens.