Blackbird - Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography
Wild About Gardens
From planting a butterfly border to making your own wildlife pond, every garden provides a vital link for wildlife.
By creating a wildlife friendly garden you can help wildlife like frogs, butterflies, and hedgehogs, and you can develop your own green space to relax and connect with nature.
The Wildlife Trusts and the RHS set up Wild About Gardens to celebrate wildlife gardening and to encourage people to act for nature. Over the past 50 years we've seen declines in two thirds of the UK's plant and animal species. Many of our common garden visitors - including hedgehogs, house sparrows and starlings - are increasingly under threat.
Ponds, bee nests, butterfly borders and swift boxes
Each Wild About Gardens booklet has a step by step guide to garden features that can help the wildlife in your garden to thrive. Get your garden buzzing with a range of flowering plants, help the worms which make the world turn with a simple compost bin, or invite toads and frogs to take a splash in your wildlife pond.
Nick Upton
Wild about high fliers
Welcoming swifts, swallows and martins in the 2022 Wild About Gardens booklet, which gives a fact file about the identification, migration, and threats of each of these birds. This booklet also guides you through plants and features that make an ideal garden for swifts, swallows and martins.