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or herbicides and plant lots of flowers and you'll soon have lots of bees and insects that will then attract lots of birds. Good luck - I've been wildlife gardening for two years now and it's incredibly rewarding I am about to replace my very tall

. I've just purchased some from Wilkinsons and will pot up later today. I put them into the greenhouse or outside, with fleece mainly to stop birds attacking them, and that's as easy as it is. Personally, John Innes is used for plants intended

why farmers plowed there fields so much i used to watch the birds follow and scoff every living thing there was, mind you i don know how else they could do it And as advised yesterday iv repotted my Hydranges and there in the rain all smiling

,  but there is still a large hawthorne hedge between our garden and the fields at the bottom.  We do get plenty of wild life in the garden, unfortunately at the moment several rats are paying us a visit and stealing the bird food.  They have probably

). Emraa regarding slugs, try and encourage birds into your garden as they will eat the slugs. If you don't want to go down the chemical route a night time slug hunt by torch light will be needed. Put some beer in a bucket and just put them in there

year round nectar bar but late spring/early summer will be a bit of a gap. I'm planning to get apple cordons which would flower in spring, and possibly bird's foot trefoil and snakeshead fritillary for the lawn, when we've laid it.  Songs lovely

April.  Winter will be late leaving us this year, keep on with the digging, as you will expose lots of pests eggs, such as slugs, which the birds will eat.  Digging when frost is due is also a good idea, as it helps to split the bigger clods of earth

a covering of  snow overnight.  Hope I have spoken too soon! Bitterly cold wind here today, about 2 inches of snow overnight and very cold.   Poor birds desperately looking for food again.  Come on spring, hurry up, thought you were here last week

, in the end decided to get rid of her lawn completely and have raised borders so the dog couldn't access them. She laid a large central patio where the grass had been and put a stone bird bath in the centre for the dog to cock its legs on and each night she

!)  They do have 10% off everything this weekend, though, so only need to add on 10%, Poundstretcher also really good for bulbs, seeds and solar lights, as well as bird seed and fat balls/cake.  My local one not very big, so tend not to stock pots and shuttle