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of slug it is, it will eat your plants, so kill it! According to this site (and several others) the Leopard Slug is the gardener's friend http://www.opalexplorenature.org/LeopardSlug  I didn't realise any slugs were useful. Will have to look out

that the organisers didn't intend for existing native plants to be removed or damaged, but perhaps they just need to give a bit more guidance to the well-intentioned guerrillas who join them on their adventures. There is lots of innovative wildlife friendly planting

everything stage so I know what to off, what to keep or resite etc but I'm also keen to keep it as wildlife friendly as possible. We have squirrels, badgers, foxes, rabbits and a menagerie of birds every day so its going to be fun trying to find the balance

to more pickings for breakfast well into September.Just one job for next weekend...I must bury the tips of a couple of canes in the soil. These will root by a process called tip layering to produce new plants that I can give away to friends

't pull them out, its a lovely plant and I bet they weren't cheap either. If everything other thin in the garden is benificial to wildlife then a couple of plants wont matter.  Find a friend that has some foxgloves in their garden and pinch a couple

and cotoneaster. But what I’d really like is a crab apple. It’s probably not the best option for my small, shady plot, as it requires a fair amount of sun, but I think I might chance it. A friend has one growing in her garden and I always feel a pang of jealousy

Since I bought my shed, I've been itching to put a green roof on it, but I’ve always been put off by how difficult the task looks. Luckily, a friend asked if she could do the job for me, for a book she's writing. So last weekend, she turned up

I have a wooden fence all around my garden And would like evergreen climbers for cover and wildlife.So any suggestions would be helpfull. Pyracantha, birds love the berries and lovely white flower clusters in June attract the insects. Would need

to the birds and perhaps say hello to a couple of fellow plot holders.  We have all sorts of wildlife on our lottie site, deer, badgers, foxes, rabbits, moles, mice as well as a variety of birds including some buzzards over the back and, not forgetting

is there for a gardener than the reward of having wildlife use the habitat created for them? Two pairs of blackbirds regularly dart about my lawn feeding, chasing and protecting their territory. I'm not sure where their boundaries lie or whether they're happy