Water for your garden
Our top tips for providing water for wildlife, as well as making your water go further.
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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.
Red fox
Famed for their cunning and stealth, these orangey-red dogs with their bushy tails can be seen in towns and the countryside. They come out mostly at night but can also be seen during the day if…
Stoat
The stoat is a small mustelid, related to the weasel and otter. It has an orange body, black-tipped tail and distinctive bounding gait. Spot it on grassland, heaths and in woodlands across the UK…
How to build a pond
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
Wren
The tiny wren, with its typically cocked tail, is a welcome and common visitor to gardens across town and countryside. It builds its domed nests in sheltered bushes and rock crevices.
Privet hawk-moth
With a torpedo-shaped body and long, narrow wings, the privet hawk-moth is a striking garden visitor. But the caterpillars really stand out: lime-green, with purple streaks and a black hook at the…
Peacock
The markings of the peacock are unmistakeable - big, blue 'eyes' just like a peacock's tail feathers. It can be seen feeding on flowers all year-round during warm spells, and…
Arable fields
Most arable fields are large, featureless monocultures devoid of wildlife, but here and there are smaller fields and tucked away corners that are farmed less intensively, or are managed…
About Us
Find out more about Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature, and the partners involved: The Wildlife Trusts, The Women's Institute, Incredible Edible and Garden Organic.
Food for nature
Get tips on making your green space even more wildlife friendly, from long grass to log piles, bird food to flowers.
Ponds
Whether found in a garden or part of an agricultural landscape, ponds are oases of wildlife worth investigating. Even small ponds can support a wealth of species and collectively, ponds play a key…