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How your garden can help wildlife this winter
With the colder months just around the corner, find out what you can do in your garden to help wildlife. With some garden inspiration from our past Shows, you’re sure to have plenty of ideas for your plot.
We ’d like to thanks our friends at BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine for help with the utile tips and advice below !
Habitat piles
apply logs , twigs , pots , leaves and other garden debris to produce a habitat pile for wildlife looking for somewhere to bed down for the winter . opt somewhere out of the way of life that will be undisturbed . Dry sphere make great stead for insects and mammals , while damp areas will pull amphibians .
Time to put away the bee hotel
If you put up a bee hotel in the leaping or summertime , make indisputable to take it down in the winter month and pop it in a shed or wry place , to avoid damp condition which could put any bee nest inside at risk of infection of fungal infections . Do n’t take your bee hotel into the house as the warmth may awaken up your nesting bee early ! you could put the bee hotel back up in March when the weather condition is warm .
Mulch, mulch, mulch!
Here at BBC Gardeners ’ World Autumn Fair , we roll in the hay a Beautiful Border . verify to mulch your borders – hoard leaves each fall to utilise as mulch the undermentioned year . This replicates the natural Hz of a woodland floor , increase worm activity in the territory , and provides protection for centipede and mallet .
Help the birds
As well as stocking up Bronx cheer feeders with fat balls , peanuts , seeds and more , you could also try making your own helpful nesting supply . Using a bird feeder , stuff nest wool , cones , twigs , leave of absence , grass clippings , husk , moss and more .
Create your own water feature
Having a informant of H2O in the garden is a gravid direction to further all sorts of wildlife to your garden , throughout the year . you’re able to discover out how to create your own naturalistic pool here . Or , why not try create a smaller water feature , using a large ceramic trough or perhaps an upcycled basin to produce a low region for wildlife to flourish , or for birds to bathe .
Feeling inspired ? research the gallery below where we ’ve put together a collection of wildlife friendly garden stirring from our past Beautiful Borders and Show Gardens from the shows …
newfangled yr , unexampled garden , new style !
We ’re through the garden logic gate into 2023 , with a legion of horticulture trend blooming throughout the nation . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying heights of popularity , to the colour of the yr ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full list of trends .
To get up tight and personal with fresh garden stirring , new plants , the latest gardening outfit and more , link us in 2023 .
Colour of the Year 2023
Hand - picked by Pantone , the colour of the year has been named as ‘ Viva Magenta .
Pantone describe the colour as‘brave and fearless , and a pulsating colour whose enthusiasm promotes a joyous and optimistic solemnization , writing a young narrative . ’
notice a worldly concern of colour and scent in the stunningFloral Marquee , bursting with honour - acquire nurseries and show .
Sustainable gardening
Whilst your garden might seem to already be very green , it can always be gullible !
Discover ways you could make gardening more sustainable , like upcycling unwashed items to make stylish features . What was a pallet , hessian bags , bits of pipe , and tin cans , could become a planter , get bags , water features , and wildlife habitat .
Be inspire by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine column squad as they ’re bring together by experts to give bakshis and advice .
Grow your own food
look to go from filth to supper this twelvemonth ? Get brilliant advice from the National Allotment Society at the event .
Peat-free gardening
Learn about the latest peat - free compost from exhibitors who can put up face - to - case advice .
Indoor gardening
leafage does n’t just belong outside – bring nature indoors and be inspired by the Houseplant Hub .
Mindful gardening
Beautiful Borders returns with this year ’s root ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you outer space savvy ideas .
Gardening on a budget
Discover different ways you could allow your garden bloom under a tighter budget , with advice from expert nurseryman .
Fermented foods
travel to the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with free entry with your tag ! ) and key the up-to-the-minute foodie trends .
Feeling inspired ? Find out what else is happening at BBC Gardeners ’ World exist this June !
