How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
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How to attract bumblebees to your garden
The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting bumblebee-friendly flowers.
How to attract moths and bats to your garden
Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden.
Garden tiger moth
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…
Open Gardens Volunteers
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Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Open Gardens showcases wildlife-friendly gardens across Cornwall to our green-fingered supporters. Supported by our volunteers, who help locate suitable gardens, liaise…
Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
Wildlife gardens
Find the best wildlife gardens to visit around Britain, and perhaps take home some inspiration to make your own home a little wilder, helping wildlife along the way!
Getting Wild About Gardens
The buzz of a bee, the sweet scent of honeysuckle, these precious moments are not only a delight to experience in our gardens, they’re absolutely vital if we’re going to protect, restore and…
Visit to Moverons Gardens & Farm
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Join us for a presentation and guided walk around the gardens and farm to discover the diverse planting environments of this coastal jewel.
Visit to Moverons Gardens and Farm
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Join us for a presentation and guided walk around the gardens and farm to discover the diverse planting environments and wildlife of this coastal jewel overlooking the Colne estuary.
Ty Newydd Gardens
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Small area of woodland
Open Gardens Assistant Co-ordinator Volunteer
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Our open gardens programme has so far raised in excess of £175,000 over the past 13 years.
Our aim is to provide a bespoke open garden programme to our supporters, leaving them with a…