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.
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Take action for wildlife
How to take wildlife friendly steps in your own home, space and garden.
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.
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.
30 Days Wild – Butterflies!
Young Ambassador Chris is aiming to find 30 butterflies in 30 days for 30 Days Wild!
How to feed birds in your garden
Find out how to attract birds into your garden all year round.
Butterflies in lockdown
Mike and Sue Garlick outline the butterflies to look out for following their butterfly transects at our Coombe Bissett Down nature reserve.
A garden butterfly count
Young Ambassador Chris Bailey took part in the Big Butterfly Count this summer.
How to make a bog garden
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
How to create a vertical garden
Gardening doesn’t need to be restricted to the ground - bring your walls to life for wildlife! Many types of plants will thrive in a green wall, from herbs and fruit to grasses and ferns.
Small white
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.
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…