14-02-2006, 10:45 PM
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 | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
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| Re: Nest Boxes and planting,a membership survey
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Originally Posted by Fourwings We have upwards of 30 nest boxes, 6 bat boxes in our 4 acre garden and meadow.
One acre of this meadow was planted as woodland in 1990, this has now matured fantastically.
Within the meadow there is also Rough grassland, cut meadow grass, shrubberys, 3 ponds, extensive nettle & bramble patches and several mature Ash trees.
The one thing that I want to do this year is to plant a large patch of dwarf Sunflowers, we grew a few last year and the birds & insects really enjoyed them. | Jeez Fourwings. You make my smallish garden seem so insignificant now. lol |