Wildlife

Attract butterflies with zinnias. Sarah Cuttle

Wildlife starts in the garden, and every plant, pond, and log pile you add makes room for more of it. Here you’ll find advice on seasonal jobs that help wildlife through autumn and winter, plants that feed birds, and guides to identifying the creatures you share your space with. Want to build a home for wildlife? Our habitat guides cover ponds, hedgehog highways, and bird boxes. Looking for a simple start? Leaving some leaves, seed heads, and wild corners in place is one of the easiest things you can do.

Autumn and winter for wildlife

10 ways to help garden wildlife in autumn

Seedheads in a border

Four autumn wildlife gardening jobs

Hibernating wildlife - hedgehog in leaves

Signs of hibernating wildlife

Help wildlife survive winter - ladybirds on a poppy seedhead. Getty Images.

Help wildlife survive winter

Washing a wire bird feeder

Five winter wildlife gardening jobs

Feeding garden birds in winter

Plants for Bees

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How to grow alliums

How to grow alliums

How to grow buddleia. Sarah Cuttle

How to grow buddleia (butterfly bush)

How to grow penstemons

How to grow penstemons

How to grow thyme

How to grow thyme

How to grow delphiniums – Delphinium 'Faust'. Jason Ingram

How to grow delphiniums

Lamb's ear, Stachys byzantina

How to grow lamb's ear

How to grow verbascums

How to grow verbascums

Bumblebee collecting pollen from a teasel flower. Getty Images

How to grow teasel

How to grow goldenrod – Solidago 'Babygold' with other perennials

How to grow goldenrod (solidago)

How to grow foxgloves

How to grow foxgloves

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Identify garden visitors

White-tailed bumblebee, Bombus lucorum

Identifying bumblebees

Robin in the garden during winter months. Photo: Tim Sandall

25 common British garden birds and how to identify them

Red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta)

Garden wildlife identifier: butterflies

An illustration of a tawny dormouse with a fluffy tail sitting on a branch

Garden wildlife identifier: small mammals

Garden wildlife identifier: bird eggs

Garden wildlife identifier: caterpillars

Plants for birds

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Sunflowers in sunshine.

How to grow sunflowers

Cornflowers, Centaurea cyanus. Sarah Cuttle

How to grow cornflowers

Common knapweed, Centaurea nigra. Getty Images

How to grow knapweed

Meadow of scabious

How to grow scabious

How to grow self heal – Prunella vulgaris. Getty Images

How to grow self-heal (Prunella vulgaris)

Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum). Jason Ingram

How to grow and care for honeysuckle

How to grow lavender

How to grow lavender

How to grow hawthorns - hawthorns to try

How to grow hawthorn

How to grow holly

How to grow holly

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Wildlife habitats

Five reasons to feed your soil – blackbird taking a worm back to its nest

Habitats for garden birds

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Mother and son watching bonfire in allotment garden. Getty images

How to make a wildlife-friendly bonfire