The Wildlife Gardening Project

A wildlife garden is sometimes assumed to be an overgrown weed-infested wilderness. Not so! Gardening for wildlife techniques can be used in a variety of garden styles. Whether you want a wildflower meadow or a neat formal garden, a low maintenance family garden or a productive vegetable patch, you can still invite more wildlife to share your garden.

While almost all gardens have some value to wildlife, all can have this value enhanced. This can be done in many ways, such as reducing the use of pesticides, planting species which provide food or shelter, creating ponds, putting up nest boxes (not just for birds!) or simply leaving "untidy" areas.

We have produced a number of fact sheets to help you bring the wild into your garden. Feel free to print these out, and share with your friends and neighbours.

Bats in the Garden (730 Kb PDF)
Homes for Birds (480 Kb PDF)
Bumblebees in the Garden (170 Kb PDF)
Butterfles in the Garden (320 Kb PDF)
Make your own Compost (690 Kb PDF)
Hedgehogs in the Garden (415 Kb PDF)
Build an Invertebrate Habitat (750 Kb PDF)
Build a Pond (715 Kb PDF)
Going Organic (440 Kb PDF)
Gardening without using Peat (290 Kb PDF)
Controlling Slugs and snails (355 Kb PDF)
Plant a Wildflower Meadow (500 Kb PDF)