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'Grow Your Own' Week: Garden birds

By Richard Jones on 31/03/2010 11:44:58

in the garden. As with that other garden favourite, the robin, wrens are voracious hunters of insects, and with their inquisitive searching into every available cranny, they will get in there now to clear out the caterpillars, aphids and plant bugs before


Garden birds and Feed the Birds Day

By Kate Bradbury on 28/10/2010 11:10:54

.At the height of breeding season the blue tit returned, though was scared off by a pair of great tits, which visited several times a day. They snacked on peanuts and gathered caterpillars and aphids for their babies. Sadly, they didn't return with their fluffy


Hedgehogs in the garden

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

piles, under sheds and in compost heaps. They breed from early to late-summer, giving birth to up to seven hoglets at a time, and feed on earthworms, beetles, caterpillars, and - happily for gardeners - slugs.I've never seen a hedgehog where I live


Feeding birds in summer

By Gardeners' World on 12/07/2011 06:48:10

. If this year's youngsters and their parents can obtain enough energy now, they'll have the energy resources to survive leaner times ahead.Nesting parents have a particularly tough time in summer. The job of finding hundreds of caterpillars a dayis hard work


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