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Hi buds, I'm redesigning my pal's garden for her and want to include a small shrubbery. (Will that word forever start the Monty Python theme going in my head!?).This will involve adding plants to an area currently backed by laurel and a humongous

shrubberies for winter food will need a bit more help to see them through the winter. While so many of us provide food for the seed eaters (sunflower,peanuts, nyger etc) some of us forget the blackbirds and thrushes which do not visit the hanging containers

year, I don't worry about it. We have a box that has been hidden in shrubbery for years, its impossible to get to it but it hasn't stopped the Bluetits from nesting.  Birds will clean out a box themselves so I wouldn't worry about it. Better to provide

of the day. I have considered planting it up with a variety of ferns, hostas and mahonia giving it an exotic style look combined with a shrubbery. Would these plants be ok in this sort of position and has anybody got any other suggestions to add a bit

of wing power then one second of coasting alternating across the field, it bobs its way out of sight into the shrubbery.And although I now see them regularly I still haven't got my ears accustomed, because I have never heard one laugh. It's this short

(sadly, this Palouse earthworm appears to have had a bit of a spade-related accident).In Australia you are much more likely to stumble across a snake than a rosemary beetle (No.6) while quietly rumbling about in the shrubbery. As Australia is home

-friendly garden should have a tree for them to perch in, and lots of dense shrubbery and climbers where they can hide from predators.Looking at the bare bones of my garden I can see why the birds aren't coming. There are lots of climbers, which, once they have

bumblebee had been found at a London sewage works. It’s all very lovely, but I can’t help feeling that the setting of such events should be a little more romantic. The goldcrest was one of several moving through the shrubbery one Thursday rush-hour morning

the breeding season, to lay their spawn. The rest of the time they are terrestrial animals, completely at home in the shrubbery, log pile or herbaceous border. Their very name — amphibian — is a reflection of this, deriving from the Greek amphi (both, or both

“I heard some growling from the shallow pond”, said the text message, from my mother. Frogs have been hiding under rocks and shrubbery in my mum's garden since she moved in nearly 17 years ago; but this is the first time there has been any 'growling