Wildlife

Create a wildlife pond in five easy steps

Ponds are a wonderful way to encourage wildlife to the garden and so easy you can create a wildlife pond in five easy steps – and also to bring some beneficial critters to help in the garden! This post contains affiliate links to products that I have used or recommend. I have made these as …

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Meadow lawn showing Birdsfoot Trefoil, Yellow Rattle and Poppy

How to grow a meadow lawn – part two

Remember me telling you about how we tried two ways to make a meadow lawn in part one? Well, numpty here decided while we wait for the seeds to take it would be a good idea to turf over them to protect them and provide some greenery.

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Prepared ground with seed

How to grow a meadow lawn – part one

Nearly all the wildflower meadows in the UK have been lost through agriculture. And the pursuit of neat trimmed grass leaves very little habitat that would otherwise be a hum of life and colour.

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