Hello! Here we go a three month update, lots of activity with wildlife now, exciting stuff. https://i.imgur.com/vRj081k.jpg https://imgur.com/zyhbtmj.jpg https://imgur.com/NOjYZ8C.jpg https://imgur.com/x9wvnuu.jpg These were all taken within 5 minutes of each other. So happy to see tadpoles and frog...

Sorry for the slow update, here's just a few photos. Not managed to get anything else done in the garden, horrible weather https://i.imgur.com/uiyAVaW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/D6SYTpo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hLkJOcQ.jpg As you can see it's not done yet. I've done the top so I can plant it up, thinkin...

I've started working on a huge wildlife hotel that I'll take a photo of in the morning, and I'm looking into these "bumblebee nest box" things. I don't like many of what I've found but some websites are saying to use a pot with a hose coming out the bottom for them to get into Now from wha...

So here's the photos from today This morning https://i.imgur.com/dv5MFLP.jpg This afternoon when I got home from work https://i.imgur.com/i50HdWU.jpg The rocks did actually go in yesterday but by the time I was finished it was dark. The furthest big rock slopes in like a ramp and has a nice cavern l...

I've finally taken the plunge and started on a pond, I want to encourage a manner of creatures to my garden, especially frogs, and there's no better way of doing it than water. Here's my progress so far Step 1, clearing the area. This was part of the chicken run, so a days work went into pulling it ...

Almost back into Spring now I was just wondering how it went for you last year?

Thank you Kitla I've bookmarked that! Certainly think it's worthwhile doing the heap in the run. At the moment I use one of those plastic compost bins bought from a garden centre, it's naff and I barely get anything from it. At least this way the compost gets done and the chickens have fun As for th...

Hi all, it's been a while since I posted here, hope you're all doing well I lost one of my chickens a few weeks ago, so I've decided for Spring I'm going to change up the run a bit and introduce 2 or 3 new chickens. Just have to decide what to go for. Has anyone put a compost heap in their chicken r...

I'm city based with an alright sized garden, trying to make it wildlife friendly as best I can. This year I'm experimenting with a lot of different "wildlife friendly" plants, mostly trying to help out my bees and frogs the most, but butterflies and birds are more than welcome. Last year t...

Thanks for both the replies, I will give them all a go. Anything I can do to help get rid of the cats haha

This may be in the wrong section so please do correct me if I'm wrong I've decided that this year I'm really going to crack the garden, I've already started with a 3ft (maybe 4) bed with a container pond dug into the ground. Now before I continue (I've still got a week until Spring) I want to know a...

I absolutely love the slug dragons! Next up I'm hoping for hedgehogs or for my birdboxes to fill up :)

Having lived in this house since I was about 7 (I'm 22 now), I've always known what's been in my garden. We used to get slow worms all the time when I was younger, but then the neighbour and her army of cats moved in and I hadn't seen any for years. Well last year saw the return of frogs, and this y...

About a week ago I heard the neighbours screaming that their cat had brought in a frog but it was still alive, I knew she would have wanted to kill it so I said I'd take it on. Gave its eye a quick clean (had a bit of blood) and put it in our water feature, and so far he seems to be enjoying it. He ...

I've been working so hard to make my garden a wildlife friendly place, planting wildlife friendly flowers/plants, putting up nest boxes and insect homes. Didn't even think about the massive rhododendron that's already growing and then I see something about them being toxic to bees! Should I pull it ...