How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
Pots and containers are a great way of introducing wildlife features onto patios, or outside the front door. They are also perfect for small gardens or spaces like window ledges or roofs. Herbs,…
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
Wildlife in Dorset will get more of the space it desperately needs to spread and regenerate following Dorset Wildlife Trust’s acquisition of a large area of land south-east of Bere Regis.
Gardening doesn’t need to be restricted to the ground - bring your walls to life for wildlife! Many types of plants will thrive in a green wall, from herbs and fruit to grasses and ferns.
It’s amazing how much wildlife can be supported by one small hay-meadow site, as the reserve at our Dorset Wildlife Trust Headquarters at Brooklands Farm proves.
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts. Any pond can become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats – the best…
It's been a wild year for Dorset Wildlife Trust! As we approach 2026, we look back at some of our highlights from 2025. From the opening of our state-of-the-art wildlife observatory on…