Wildlife-friendly gardening

Photo - lawn and flowers in a garden

Wildlife garden - Katie Wilkinson

Wildlife-friendly gardening

Wild About Gardens 2023

Let's invite wildlife back into our gardens, The Wildlife Trusts and the RHS have set up Wild About Gardens to celebrate wildlife gardening and to encourage people to take action in their gardens to  support nature. Many of our common garden visitors – including hedgehogs, house sparrows and starlings – are increasingly under threat. But together we can make a difference. The focus this year is on bringing your lawn to life, and the new Wild About Gardens booklet isfull of tips and advice to help make your lawns more wildlife-friendly.

Visit the Wild About Gardens website

Making your garden wildlife-friendly

Your garden can make a real difference to local wildlife. Large or small, the way you choose to care for your garden matters. Gardens are like mini stepping stones across our towns and villages, helping wildlife find food, water, shelter, and places to breed. Together, they create a living landscape where wildlife can thrive.

Join thousands of other people across the country in making a difference to wildlife in your back garden.

Free wildlife-friendly gardening guides

We've created a series of guides full of simple tips and advice on how to attract wildlife into your garden. Whether it's attracting pollinators or finding new ways to keep the pests off your plants, you can create a space that is functional, beautiful and wildlife-friendly.

Follow the links below to find out how.

Pollinators

Robert Skingsley

Pollinators

Attract butterflies, moths and bees into your patch.

Get Dorset buzzing with these handy tips!
Mini meadows

Kieron Huston

Mini meadows

Bring your lawn to life with flowers and insects.

Create a mini-meadow from your lawn
Frog peaking out of water

Richard Bowler

Wild and wet

Find out how to incorporate water into your garden.

Download our wet and wild guide
Photo showing seedlings in pots

Katharine Davies

Community gardening

Planning a garden that can be enjoyed by everyone.

Read our guide to community gardening
Photo of hedgehog peeking out of leaves Wildlife friendly gardening in small spaces

Tom Marshal

Small spaces

Attracting wildlife to the smallest of spaces is easy.

Wildlife-friendly gardening in small spaces
Borage with bee on it

Chris Gomersall/2020VISION / Borage 

A plant guide for community gardening

Looking for inspiration for what to plant?

Find out what to plant in your community garden
Guest or pest

Vicky Nall

Gardener's friends

Understanding natural deterrents.

A guide to natural deterrents
Bue tit

Bob Coyle

Birds and Bushes

Plant the right shrubs and trees and the birds will come

How to attract birds to your garden

How to attract pollinators to your garden

Author and wildlife gardening expert, Kate Bradbury explains what you can do in your garden at any time of year to encourage pollinators and other wildlife.

Quick links

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