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Hi all (I'm not sure if this is the right forum topic for this - moderators, please move if need be, thanks). My friend's two young cats had to be put down on Sunday as they were poisoned by antifreeze. The vet said that it may have been due to a

iv'e been gardening for 3 season's and had trouble with slugs and snails every yaer how can i keep them down   can anyone help I use slug trap from Poundland part filled with beer and place them round the garden.  I know family and friends who go

by; composting the waste from the small animals; harvesting rain water to use in the garden; reusing donated plant pots, fencing and wire.- Making the garden a friendly and sustainable place for wildlife by installing; insect hotels; a small pond

and patches of bare wall, I noticed two seedlings growing at the back of the north-facing border: ivy. The decision to introduce it to my garden has been taken out of my hands - this shade-loving, fast growing, wildlife-friendly climber has found it all

into the garden,they  are part of the wildlife around and do in our case take out a lot of the rat population ,you have to live with them to be part of the environment we live in ,annoying sometimes but so are humans.You cant choose what comes to visit or what you

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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

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

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

woodpeckers, witnessed blackbirds and robins fighting over territory, and sat a little too close to a wasps' nest.It's generally a very good habitat for wildlife: there's a mass of ivy to provide food and shelter for all manner of creatures, and something