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in the waste below.It's remarkable how much life a compost bin can attract. Books will tell you that a compost heap is one of the best garden features to attract wildlife but, somehow, this 'life' inside the bin can go unnoticed.We gardeners normally only

the machinery. Good luck. I have a friend whose landlord is getting rid of their wildlife pond (some past tenant put it in). It is a nasty black rigid thing but full of newts, frogs and invertebrates. I am just setting up a wildlife pond - what would

Yea, appreciation, at last! I will tell Peter and the boys! I filled my front garden many years ago with shrubs, flowers,dwarf? trees and let it get on with attracting the wildlife and weeds in the few spaces. It teems with birds and insects

crab apple, hawthorn and potentilla, seem to be irresistible to our buzzing friends, as are the flowers of fennel, angelica and cow parsley, and sedums.Tubular-shaped flowers, such as foxgloves, snapdragons, penstemons and heathers, are also all

's wildlife garden. I always thought that a water pump was a massive no no, but it showed a small stream running into the pond, is there some type of wildlife friendly water pump? Also with what cufcskim posted is there a minimum size for a pond? Really you

Paris, for an old school friend's birthday party. I've got a couple of hours on Sunday morning before the Eurostar home, so where better than a park to sit and watch the sights? I'm on the east side of the city, between the Bastille and Nation so it

. So I say, keep banging on about gardening for wildlife, it's vital that people get the message.   Couldn't agree more with your sentiments. It was ten years ago a friend raised the awareness of gardening for wildlife and since then my garden has been

. Is this true, or should I get some frogspawn from my friend's pond when it becomes available? Reply to ffbumblebeeThe best time to build a pond is in late autumn after rains have helped rehydrate the soil. This is nothing to do with wildlife, but makes

grow very slowly in tufa so low maintenance too. Wildlife friendly can be so beautiful too. That's a lovely idea, happymarion, but I've already got the roof built now. The wildflowers will put on plenty of growth in spring.Kate I would love to do

and the damned slugs and snails just crawl straight across.  Please help I am literally losing everything I have spent time and money on. You can get wildlife friendly slug pellets that are very effective and go out after dark with a torch and pick off