Describe your Wildlife Garden!

i must confess to being a sucker for cultivated plants and modern garden design and it has been challenging trying to cultivate a 'nice' looking garden while also catering for wildlife. however, a combination of children, their stuff (mainly trampoline and climbing frame) and lack of time has meant that the garden has been neglected over recent years and much of it has become 'wilder'. i have also made some conscious decisions like not pointing brick borders after realising that all sorts of creatures including amphibs use the gaps etc as shelter. so its much better for wildlife than it was. the small pond helps as well of course. 

at some point, when the trampoline and climbing frame can go, i will re-design it all. i'll be much more mindful of wildlife but will still want a mixed border or two.

tom

 

So, as there is a ditch on the other side of my fence leading down to a lake I decided to build this pretty hazardous brush pile out of holly off cuts, budlieah branches and old ferns and placed an old metal dustbin lid next to it, with a stone at the edge, and lots of dried moss underneath.

 

There are some Rabbit holes fairly close, so next job will be to plant loads of lavender and heather around the rims of the tunnels and in the corner of the garden (hottest part) I'll begin a compost heap.

 

See how it goes...