How to provide water for wildlife
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
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How to start a wildlife garden from scratch
Use the blank canvas of your garden to make a home for wildlife.
How to grow a wildlife- friendly vegetable garden
Learn about companion planting, friendly pest control, organic repellents and how wildlife and growing vegetables can go hand in hand.
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Grow wildlife-friendly herbs
Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.
Water for your garden
Our top tips for providing water for wildlife, as well as making your water go further.
Go chemical and peat free
Avoid using pesticides, weedkillers and peat in your gardening. You'll help wildlife at home and in the wider environment.
Bottlenose dolphin
Bottlenose dolphins in British waters are the biggest of their kind – they need to be able to cope with our chilly waters! They are very sociable and will happily swim alongside boats, providing…
Spiked water-milfoil
Look out for the feathery leaves of Spiked water-milfoil just below the surface of streams, ditches, lakes and ponds; its red flowers emerge from the water in summer. It provides shelter for a…
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…
Garden spider
Have you ever stopped to look at the shape of a spider web? Garden spiders spin a spiral shaped web, perfect for catching lots of juicy prey!
Coronation Gardens
Welcome to Coronation Gardens for food and nature! If you’d like to grow your own carrots or strawberries to save money on your weekly food shop and relax in nature among the butterflies and birds in your back yard, we’d love you to get involved.