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…
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European hedgehog
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.…
Gardeners urged to help beetles
Beetles are the unsung heroes of the garden and need our support urge the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts, as they launch 2021’s Wild About Gardens campaign.
Wild Families: Hedgehogs
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
A hedgehog themed family session to celebrate Hedgehog Awareness Week.
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…
Open Gardens Volunteers
This link will open on the Cornwall Wildlife Trust website.
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…
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!
Saving hedgehogs
Hedgehogs have declined dramatically in recent decades and are considered vulnerable. Wildlife Trusts across the UK are working hard to turn things around.
Wild Families: Helping hedgehogs
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
A family session to explore and take action for nature, ages 5+: Hedgehog Awareness Week special!
Wildlife Gardeners Recognised
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts have announced the winners of the Big Wildlife Garden Competition. This has been funded, as part of its commitment to the Natural…
Helping hedgehogs
This link will open on the Cumbria Wildlife Trust website.
Find out how to help hedgehogs as they start to stir from their winter hibernation.
Return of the hedgehogs
We all love hedgehogs, but climate change, habitat loss and pollution are all big threats to the species, and unless we act, hedgehogs could eventually go extinct. To draw attention to this prickly fact, we’ve teamed up with local people to place 50 hedgehog sculptures around Epsom and Ewell. We want to help people imagine a world where hedgehogs have bounced back to their former glory!