Be a hedgehog hero this autumn
Everyone loves a hedgehog: they look cute, they can roll into a prickly ball, and they snuffle around munching pesky slugs and snails that devour our prized plants – a gardener’s best friend! But…
Everyone loves a hedgehog: they look cute, they can roll into a prickly ball, and they snuffle around munching pesky slugs and snails that devour our prized plants – a gardener’s best friend! But…
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
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As the nights draw in and the weather gets colder, it may be tempting to have a big tidy up of your garden, but DON’T! Put down your shovel and pruners and let nature in to your garden this autumn…
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
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.…
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.