Gardening for Wildlife
A practical guide on how to help wildlife in your garden. There are three reasons to encourage wildlife into your garden:

  1. Wildlife gardening brings an extra dimension of beauty to your space. With the sound of blackbirds and crickets, the flutter of a yellow butterfly and the gentle buzz of drowsy bumble bees, you will always have something to watch and listen to.
  2. Wildlife gardening helps many once-common city animals that are now threatened. Adding your garden to a broader habitat for wildlife will help to sustain sparrows, songthrush, stag beetles, dragonflies, hedgehogs, lizards, and grasshoppers. Persuading your neighbours to join in too will add even more to this growing network.
  3. Wildlife gardening helps you and your children to discover the fragile world of wildlife that surrounds us. The fascination of frogs returning to a wildlife pond year after year is a delight many city children miss out on. To say nothing of sharing the knowledge of a secret wren nest, turning a stone carefully to find centipedes and watching the blue tits to see if they really will open milk bottles. Learn and enjoy.


Animals need four things: food, water, shelter and places to breed. Follow our guides to important features that you can create in your garden, on your balcony or up your walls that can provide valuable habitats.

Click on the link below to download Wildlife Gardening Packs from the London Wildlife Trust. There is variety of information such as;

What to feed birds
How to build a pond
How to create a butterfly garden
And much more!

http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/resources2.php?MemberID=&SelSubjectID=7