What’s buzzing in your garden?
Join us on a one-day event to record bees and other pollinating insects in your garden
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Put your garden to the test!
Our two-minute survey can score your garden and offer ideas to make it even better for wildlife, but why is this so important?
Get your garden buzzing with free gardening webinars
Cumbria Wildlife Trust is running a series of webinars to teach people how to garden with pollinators in mind.
Get your garden buzzing and put your postcode on our map
Pollinators map form - Get your garden buzzing and put your postcode on our map.
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
How to feed birds in your garden
Attract birds all year round by creating a wildlife-friendly garden
Saving Local Wildlife with your Garden
By Ella Hendrix - Writer, Labrador Lover and Hiker
As the world finally begins to wake up to the importance of our wildlife in keeping ecosystems alive and maintaining the delicate…
How to attract bumblebees to your garden
The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting bumblebee-friendly flowers.
Get your garden buzzing and put your postcode on the map
New online map will show us how Cumbria’s gardeners are creating wildflower-rich habitats to help pollinating insects
How to attract moths and bats to your garden
Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden.
Garden bumblebee
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
Garden birds
Over recent years, numbers of our once-common garden birds have dropped dramatically in the wake of increased development, intensification of farming, and habitat loss - by up to 71% for some birds.