How to provide bushes for nesting birds
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In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
No matter how big the space you have, you can please both people and wildlife with a majestic herb garden. Planting a herb garden will not only allow you easy access to seasoning for your food, but will also attract pollinators like bees and butterflies into your garden. Herb gardens can be planted in raised beds, borders, containers or windowboxes – any space will do!
Please people and wildlife with a herb garden!
If you use planters and group them together, you will also provide shelter for wildlife between them and increase your watering efficiency. You can use troughs, hanging baskets or terracotta pots for your wildlife-friendly plants.
Top ten wildlife-friendly herbs:
- Rosemary - Rosmarinus officinalis
- Caraway - Carum carvi
- Hyssop - Hyssopus officinalis
- English lavender - Lavandula angustifolia
- Common sage - Salvia officinalis
- Wild thyme - Thymus polytrichus
- Fennel - Foeniculum vulgare
- Chives - Allium schoenoprasum
- Common mint - Mentha spicata
- Wild marjoram - Origanum vulgare
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More ways you can help bees
How to make a bee hotel
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Solitary bees are important pollinators and a gardener’s friend. Help them by building a bee hotel for your home or garden and watch them buzz happily about their business.
How to do companion planting
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Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Reduce food waste
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10 tips to reduce food waste today!
How to use less plastic
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Plastic waste and its damaging effect on our seas and natural world has been big news recently. Here's what you can you do about it.
How to grow a wild patch or mini meadow
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Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to support a wide range of insects that couldn't survive in urban areas otherwise. It is also a great way of avoiding tools such…