Community gardening - a plant guide | Dorset Wildlife Trust

Amy Lewis

Community gardening - a guide to what to plant

Looking for inspiration to make your community green spaces more attractive to wildlife. It's all about the planting,

From growing a wild patch and attracting bumblebees to making a woodland edge, check out our wildlife gardening guides.

Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to…

The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting…

Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your…

Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies

Hedges provide important shelter and protection for wildlife, particularly nesting birds and hibernating insects.

Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden…

Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!

Woody shrubs and climbers provide food for wildlife, including berries, fruits, seeds, nuts leaves and nectar-rich flowers. So why not…