Wildlife-friendly gardening

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Gardening Guide. . Get to know your local wildlife,. whether in a nearby park, open. space or nature reserve, or in your. immediate surroundings if you …

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Wildlife-friendly
gardening
A general guide
working today
for nature tomorrowCottage garden. Paul Keene/Avico Ltd
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Wildlife-friendly gardening
A general guide
Biodiversity is the amazing
richness and variety of wildlife
around us. English Nature
believes that everyone should
be able to enjoy a greater
wealth of wildlife and pass on a
rich and diverse natural
heritage to future generations.
Everyone can do their bit for
biodiversity by gardening with
wildlife in mind.
Britain is a nation of gardeners.
We also love wildlife. Until
quite recently though, we tended
to keep our two loves apart.
We went to the country to see
wild animals and wild flowers
and kept the garden for cultivated
plants and lawns. But close-mown
lawns and carefully weeded
borders of roses offer few
opportunities for wildlife. Sadly,
the same is now true of much of
the farmed countryside, as
advances in food production have
usually been made at the expense
of wildlife habitats….