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Bees

in front of you! I moved house myself about two years ago and have been creating a wildlife friendly garden ever since. Within this last two years I have seen the number of bees, butterflies and all types of other wildlife increase dramatically! I have by Midget25

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04/08/2012 16:46:49

by blueberry77

Talkback: Autumn gardening jobs

on this.....I have always felt it right to let things alone in autumn, too. Thanks for the vindication of what have been called my "lazy" habits! My friend calls my garden "uncontrolled" but I call it wildlife-friendly. The beauty of it comes not just by ChristyRose

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28/11/2011 18:44:14

by Todd Eric

Tidying up herbaceous plants for winter

friend who clears all dead growth, which enables her to fork over her beds and apply a winter mulch of well rotted manure and compost over the plants before winter really sets in. Is there a preferred method (from the plants/wildlife point of view by Tim Burr

25/10/2012 21:44:17

by Busy-Lizzie

All year plants

arrived everything died and look bare and horrendious. i am wondering if anyone has any ideas on some affordable plants i can use that will at least attempt to survive all year, possibly flower if im not asking much. i love to take photos of wildlife by incojim

08/04/2013 21:45:26

by Dovefromabove

For whom do we garden .............

- nothing!! Remind me, why do we garden - and for whom ...........? To keep the wildlife happy, of course It's a tough one isn't it? I like to share the garden with as much wildlife as possible - slugs excepted - so plant things that provide food by Bookertoo

20/04/2013 19:00:34

by Busy-Lizzie

If you were an amphibian, would you want to live here?

today and he told me that there are no other ponds nearby and he's only ever seen a few frogs in yrs. it's left me a bit disheartened, however I will hope for the best that we attract something to the garden. Yes, you will attract wildlife. Frogs by JodeJay

06/05/2013 21:42:38

by JodeJay

Talkback: Do we really want wildlife in our gardens?

Thanks for your comments, I've been thinking these thoughts for years, is it a marketing ploy for all of those companies who sell various attractive wildlife products to pretty-up our gardens, animals and wildlife would much prefer a wilderness to a by Wild Soundscape

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05/02/2012 17:29:12

by Pipstrelle

Talkback: Harvesting soft fruit

attention they had was to take off and pot a dozen runners for a friend who could not believe my crop last year. I too have had bowls of fruit from my small patch of strawberries, and the blueberries are just starting to turn deep blue. However, with next by Richard Jones

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28/11/2011 18:43:51

by Chalkweed

Slugs

that attracting them- scatter them around the plants-birds will not eat the pellets but if you are worried about that then wildlife friendly pellets are available Thank you, Sotongeoff, I will give that a go, and in the meantime sow lots more in pots to put out by Jimeva

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07/06/2012 16:28:50

by figrat

Talkback: Christmas gifts for gardeners

Eight of my gardening friends are getting the "The Bee-kind Garden". It has something in it for all kinds of gardeners; veg.and fruit growers, plants used in medicine gardeners, flowers for cutting gardeners, wildlife friendly gardeners, poetry by happymarion2

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24/12/2011 12:10:43

by happymarion2

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