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Will a clump of nettles encourage wild life into my garden,as the garden is small i dont wont to leave them there if they are going no good. I wouldn't go so far as to say that nettles encourage wildlife into a small garden.However, nettles

I have a wildlife pond in my garden (5 x 4 metres) which had an assortment of water lilies in it (amongst other things). Last year I was given a water lily which I can't identify. The inside and outside of the petals are pink at the base

Have just read an article in the Daily Telegraph on cottage gardens and thought I would post this excerpt which refers to delphiniums: "To counteract slugs, he buys aluminium sulphate from a chemist and puts two tablespoons in two gallons of water

is surrounded by rushes but there are several gaps - any ideas for suitable wild-life and insect friendly plants please. We have left some long grass and wildflowers in our garden and would like to do mow it twice a year as suggested in this article. But at what

After writing an article on how and why to keep a garden wildlife diary for BBC Gardener's World Magazine, I've been invited to go electronic and turn it into a blog. My handwriting is atrocious so maybe this will be a good way of keeping the diary

an appreciation of nature, wildlife and the environment. It had to go.Over the last few months I've regularly logged on to the RSPB Homes for Wildlife web pages just to see how my meagre gardening skills are keeping pace with their recommendations

Hi RichardI expect quite a few people will have seen Large Red Damselflies as their 'first': that's certainly what happened in my garden (see 'Emerging Large Red Damselfly' on http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/2009/05/09/emerging

Hello everyone, How wonderful this programme is. It shows us the background & the private lives of wildlife we see in our gardens. I so enjoy seeing the lives of our garden birds and the trials they have to ovecome to make it to survival. It shows

exploring the teeth. Yet more wildlife habitat in my urban garden.

. Not that simple at all.In this case, the tree being felled was a massive cypress, a good 15 metres high and probably four metres across near the base; it was a great blemish of a tree, a dark hulk, a brooding monster. Whatever people’s attitudes to gardening might