A leaf-cutter bee in a bug house © Vaughn Matthews
Wildlife Gardening help & advice: Download our free guides below
Download your free wildlife gardening guide
Wildlife-friendly gardening is about making a haven for you, as well as for wildlife.
By gardening sympathetically for wildlife, you’ll be rewarded by a truly natural outdoor space, where you can get in touch with the plants, animals and birds that make their home there.
Wild about Gardens: Ponds
Download your free guide to creating a pond
Adding a pond is one of the best things you can do for wildlife in your garden! Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.
It could also become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats – the best natural garden pest controllers.
Download your free guide to how to help hedgehogs
Small, round, brown and famously covered in spines, the hedgehog is one of the most familiar of Britain's wild mammals.
Download your free guide to how to help bees
It’s no secret that many pollinators are facing threats. Insensitive land use, a reduction in plant species diversity and the use of insecticides have all been linked to declining bee numbers. This is bad news for us and for them. But you can help.
Download your free guide to how to help bats
Bats are stars of the night, seen swooping through the night sky in the pursuit of their prey. Little understood, just what is the truth about these enigmatic mammals?
Download your free guide to helping earthworms
Let's go wild about worms! These wriggly fellows are well known to gardeners all over. At first glance they might not seem particularly special, but they’re essential for our soils and wildlife.
Download your free guide to bring your lawn to life
Our lawns are so much more than just a patch of grass. They’re a bridge between our living space and the wild world that surrounds it. A central part of many gardens. A place to play and relax, whilst still making room for wildlife.
Lawns are sometimes thought of as green deserts, but with the right approach they can become an oasis for many of our natural neighbours.
Download your free guide to growing a secret garden for butterflies
Butterflies and moths aren’t doing too well at the moment, with many species declining in recent years. But, the good news is that we can help butterflies and moths through gardening!
Download your free guide to helping swifts, swallows & martins
No stranger to a long-haul flight, swifts, swallows and martins travel all the way from Africa to spend each summer in the UK. There are lots of simple things that we can do at home to support these special birds.
Download your free guide to helping beetles
Beetles (in the order Coleoptera) make up more than a third of all known species on earth – that's around 400,000 worldwide. In the UK alone there are more than 4,000 species, and you can find them in almost every habitat, all year-round! Although a handful may eat your plants, beetles are a vital part of a healthy garden.