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Nectar BarAt Berryfields, we have made what we called the Nectar Bar alongside our big pond. Butterflies are among the more beautiful visitors we hope to attract, but all nectar-drinking creatures are welcome here.Any garden created for wildlife

– saving storage space. Electric grass trimmers, designed for tidying lawn edges, take up little space and can be used to trim the grass all over a tiny lawn.Trim your lawnWell cared for, even a small lawn does a good job of absorbing heavy rainfall. So

for wildlifeLearn how to identify bumblebees in your gardenGrowing wildlife-friendly plantsPlants for bees

the frame as if making a box.Snip your stems into lengths that are the depth of the box, discarding any bent or knobbly ones. Stems need to be straight so that the female bee can lay a number of eggs in each.Carefully pack the frame of the bee hotel

garden. No bees. A shame, poppy pollen can be a striking jet black.PS - Whilst we were planting up the container, we were careful not to trample the mole hills nearby. I had thought they could have made something of an added wildlife interest

and they saunter past without a care. One sniffed at the guinea-pig hutch, then squeezed through the gap in the fence and was gone.We city dwellers have a soft spot for these animals. For most of us, foxes are probably the most impressive wildlife we ever see

strands with its claws. It carefully gathered the silk, which seemed to just vanish. Whether this was because it scrunched up so tightly, or the spider was eating it, I could not see.Although I'd known that spiders do eat the silk, (it's too valuable a

one carefully constructed from one cut-out circle of foliage. Inside will have been eggs laid by the leafcutter bee, along with a store of nectar and pollen for the emerging grubs to feed on (we didn't dare look in case we disturbed them).We carefully

something to the wildlife", while Andrew Littleford says "it is important to remember ... that a garden is a personal kingdom and so should be managed in the preferred way of the owner." Christopher Strickland thinks it's possible to be tidy and care

Sometimes wildlife crosses the line between welcome resident and unwanted nuisance. Perhaps it's my own fault for providing temptation, but when you grow your own fruit there's always something tempting on offer.Blackbirds certainly have an instinct