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metre concrete fence posts in last summer. Considering the tree was at least 40feet away from where I was digging, I hadn't expected quite so much resistance. No wonder they make excellent cricket bats!Having said that this mature tree supports a lot

,foxes bats and a whole host of different birds that visit me including jays woodpeckers and a very beautiful sparrowhawk but it was probably the little tiny mice I have seen scurrying around the garden on the odd occasion as they are quite shy

and wildlife to your gardenMake a nesting area for birds on a pond, video projectInstall a window bird feederMake a bat boxMake fat cakes for birdsMake a green roof for a bird tableBrowse plants that are attractive to wildlifeBrowse plants with berries

managed agriculture, either. But these 'pests' form an important part of the food chain and many species of bird and bat rely on them. Sadly, a common way of dealing with ants is to pour boiling water over the nest. I wonder how many ant mating rituals

proved to be a really good one. I just hope that 2013 and the years ahead are as good  From the bean to the brussel, the bat to the bee, here's to a good year in 2013! Happy New Year to all the forum. hi im new to the site and do wish every 1 a happy new

, and they are the flecks of white that litter a rather water-logged Dulwich Park and Peckham Rye as I take a year-end cycle round my local manor.Today, no-one bats an eye at them, but things were not always so. Black-headed gulls only started to appear in urban

it with native grasses. Slow growing Argentinian trees such as tipa trees, Tipuana tipu, were decorated with the cocoons of native moths when we visited.At night, we watched the sunset while capybaras swam in the large pond, bats flitted above us and glow worms

of the garden and I have 6 hens now too!  Im waiting to see if any bats take up residence in my new bat box and no one has moved into my bird nesting boxes yet either - waiting patiently!

way to deal with the flying visitors... we have put up a bat nesting box on a nearby wall, and our little fellas eat anything that moves.We have a pile of logs for our local hedgehog, who along with all the frogs who also live in the compost heap, help

? You probably could find a pesticide to kill the beetles, but it would also kill the ladybirds, bees, hoverflies and all other beneficial insects in your garden, not to mention the odd hedgehog or two. And then of course the birds and the bats would