| plan your wildlife garden now
While the weather is miserable and the wildlife scarce,get online and look for the seed and plants to improve your gardens attractivness to wildlife
It does not matter much wether you have acres or just a bin park, grow something, plant something. If every member and guest on this forum planted
(for instance) a buddleiha in the garden in a pot or container to screen their dustbin,hung a basket of nectar producing plants on a wall, ran a small dividing hedge of 6 or more native hazel, alder, field -maple,hawthorn,persuaded a friend or neighbour to do the same we would have created at least 535 extra breathing spaces to make our own nature reserve
A survey I reported earlier this year shows,people in Sheffield had provided,
a veritable forest of 360000 garden trees,25000 ponds,45000 nest boxes,50000 compost heaps every little helps native hedging bought now as bare root plants costs very little, a group purchase,friends neighbours, may be worthwhile and will give pleasure and habitat for many creatures for many years  |