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Hedgehogs in the garden

By Kate Bradbury on 28/10/2011 13:28:15

In the 1950s, the UK was home to some 30 million hedgehogs. Now it's estimated that there are just one million, according to a recent report published by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES). It’s not known exactly why hedgehogs


Guerrilla gardening and wildlife

By Kate Bradbury on 19/11/2010 16:27:42

most of our countryside is now a series of monocultures which represent few opportunities for wildlife to forage, shelter and breed. By contrast, Jan claims, brownfield sites have become unlikely areas of high insect biodiversity, some of which are now


Homes for wildlife

By Kate Bradbury on 05/11/2010 16:14:04

sited under a hedge and dutifully packed with fallen leaves and hay.Attracting wildlife to your garden can be a bit hit and miss. Bumblebees and butterflies, for example, will happily come to our gardens to forage for food, but often choose to breed


Artificial grass

By Kate Bradbury on 13/08/2010 10:43:21

grow for the sole purpose of attracting the speckled wood, which breeds in long grass.When the news broke that sales of artificial grass are soaring, it struck me that a fake lawn might have been a better option for my small patch (roughly 4m²). I


Eating weeds

By Kate Bradbury on 18/03/2011 15:45:55

appeared in my garden soon after I converted it from a paved courtyard last year. It's not large enough and doesn't get enough sun to sustain breeding butterflies (most of which require large swathes of nettles in full sun to lay eggs), so I can munch away


Draining ponds

By Kate Bradbury on 09/04/2010 14:13:11

, you find your breeding ground has gone.Can these jobs not be done in late-summer, when the birds have fledged, before creatures settle down to hibernate?The pond in the park has been drained again this year, only this time I phoned the council. It didn


What to do with your old Christmas tree

By Kate Bradbury on 31/12/2010 07:02:08

to make the bee hotel, without bamboo, sunflower and teasel stems. I think the combination of branches, twigs and chopped trunk will make a varied insect habitat – one which I hope will be used by leafcutter bees to breed in as well as providing ladybirds


Ladybirds

By Kate Bradbury on 17/06/2011 15:32:12

was there to encourage people to take part in its ladybird surveys and help map the spread of the harlequin ladybird over the UK.The harlequin first came over to the UK in 2003. It was an inevitable invasion: a native of Asia, it was being used for biological control


Gardening for bats

By Kate Bradbury on 22/07/2011 16:56:22

the National Bat Helpline first for advice on 0845 1300 228.


Snakes in the garden

By Kate Bradbury on 02/12/2011 16:59:42

startled in Dorset was probably a slow worm or grass snake (pictured above). These benign species often turn up in gardens, mostly in the south of England, and very rarely in the north. They bask in rockeries, feed in ponds and breed in compost heaps


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