What in your Garden

[Cazzie]

I've got a pond!!!!! - well nearly, as I've just started to constuct it today! Looking forward to all the wildlife it's going to attract

Also made a home-made bee house a few weeks back from bamboo canes chopped up and wrapped in roofing felt. Sadly there have been no takers yet.... but there's always hope!

[clicka15]

I've got a bee box and a wild area above my patio. The patio has container plants that have low water demand (i.e. lavender, rosemary). In one particularly dense lavender I have found several tiny (4-5mm) chrysalises among the dead lower leaves. When one hatched the other day I photographed it and posted it on the Insects forum here - and someone identified it as a Carnation Tortrix, which is a species of micro moth. I'd never noticed them in previous years. Now I can see them flitting around my patio all the time! It just goes to show what's going on around you that you don't necessarily notice.

Steven.

[christina]

I guess I must include the fruit trees also, apple (3), plum and pear. The crows have taken all apples from one tree - they have to eat something! If I remember anything else I shall post them.

[jdurbo]

We have a bird box,Birdbath and 2 bowls for the ground feeders,about ten feeders with niger,sunflower hearts and seed mix,also a feeding area on the ground.
A very overgrown apple tree(must sort that out when its time to prune)
Quite alot of bushes which are differant sorts, and ive planted some that grow berries later in the year.
I've let one corner of the garden grow wild but it was more for cover for the birds.
I only moved in march so still got things to do.

jen xxx

[Barrowhillbetty]

I have several wild areas with native wild flowers and herbs , shrubs and small trees plus some non native wildlife friendly plants, a small wildlife pond, bird boxes and bird feeders, bumble bee nest box and a log pile. At the moment the bees and other insects favourite native flowers are my field scabious, black knapweed and corn marigold but the butterflies prefer the budleia and verbena boreniaris(hope thats spelt right!)

[boroughboy]

damn it forgot to tick the box for bird feeder LOL was tick pond box but havent started construction on it yet still in the plannin stages

[ChasCreek]

We have our little 'wild area', a feeding station with several feeders on it, a couple of other feeders around and the bit that attracts the sparrows which is two large hedges which simply explode with sparrows and although common it is nice to see. We also have logs and tree stumps around the garden which are slowly breaking and rotting down but which are full of insect life and the birds tend to gravitate to these.

We should be moving soon, pending our two houses selling and we are looking for properties with large mature gardens, plenty of hedgrow and trees etc. We plan to again have a wild area although larger and to have a wildlife pond in there and to put up bird and bat boxes - and then I'm going to live in the garden!!

[FoxySquirrel]

Several bird feeders/nest boxes not to mention half a dozen homemade feeders for our grey squirrels.

[SweetRocket]

My garden was created primarily to attract butterflies. I have 4 Buddleia’s, 3 Honeysuckles, Ivy and lots of nectar rich shrubs and perennials including a variety of Herbs. I also fill the garden with nectar rich annuals in summer.
At the bottom of the garden over the fence there is a stretch of no-mans land where wild Ivy grows in abundance and where fox’s live.
On a balmy summer’s evening we see the clumsy flight of stag beetles that would have emerged from all the old logs and rubbish that have accumulated over there.
For the birds I have a bird table, bird boxes and shepherds crooks for the feeders to outwit the squirrels, which works but they always get to the fat balls and peanuts so they get their fair share of food.
Since creating the garden it has been hugely successful in attracting all sorts of wildlife, on a hot sunny day in summer the whole garden comes alive with insects, not bad for a small back garden in west London.

[yorky]

We place piles of logs in quiet strategic places and leave them to rot. They have attracted slow worms and stag beetles in the past.