Bures Open Gardens
A big thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s Bures Open Gardens event. The event raised over £5,000 to be shared equally between the parish Church and Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
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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 open garden at Long Acre
Lovely wildlife garden to explore with lots to see for all the family.
Wildlife open garden at Wolsey Farmhouse
Lovely wildlife garden to explore with lots to see for all the family.
Ipswich community gardens are going the whole hog
Two lovely community gardens in Ipswich are helping their local hedgehog populations thrive, and are encouraging their local communities to do the same!
Wilding Woodbridge parks & gardens
This summer, our Wild Learning Officer, Charlie Zakss teamed up with Woodbridge Town Council to run free family events to help the town’s wildlife and help residents get closer to nature.
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Ivy in churchyards, gardens and community spaces
Common ivy is native to Britain and widely distributed across Suffolk. It is an adaptable woody climber, able to grow in most soil types and is resilient to changes in climatic conditions. The foliage, flowers and berries of ivy provide an excellent habitat for wildlife.
Inspired by the wild gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show? Join our new Wildlife Gardening Course...
Wild Learning Officer Claire Rowan takes a look at the wild gardens at the year's Show...
Garden Birds
Over recent years, numbers of our once-common garden birds have dropped dramatically in the wake of increased development, intensification of farming, and habitat loss - by up to 71% for some birds.
Can you spot Britain's top ten garden birds in your garden? Find out how to identify common garden birds and how you can attract birds to your garden.
Learn how you can help and how to identify different birds below.
Can you spot Britain's top ten garden birds in your garden? Find out how to identify common garden birds and how you can attract birds to your garden.
Learn how you can help and how to identify different birds below.
Garden bumblebee
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
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…
Black garden ant
The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm…