The Gardener Magazine

Rewilding your garden

Neat gardens and green lawns look beautiful, but they’re something of a green desert in terms of being a habitat for wildlife. Here are a few things we can do to make our gardens more attractive to butterflies, bees, birds, bugs and chameleons, to name but a few:

Every bit helps

The most important lesson that people can learn is that no space is too small to be a home to something. Even a few flowering plants and a birdbath on a

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