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.…
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Hedgehogs
Action for Suffolk's hedgehogs- with your help we can bring back hedgehogs to our towns and countryside
Ipswich gets artistic for hedgehogs!
Last month we invited the residents of Ipswich to get arty for hedgehogs and they didn't disappoint! By designing and creating an elaborate hedgehog-sized garden entrance for our Hedgehog…
Wild Families: Hedgehogs
Find out about Hedgehogs and what you can do to help them, trails, crafts and activities.
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.
Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
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 ponds for wildlife
A pond can attract a greater variety of wildlife than perhaps any other single feature in the garden. It provides a breeding space for frogs, toads, newts and dragonflies as well as a habitat for a host of other creatures from pond skaters to water snails. A pond that is shallow at one end will also provide bathing areas for birds and a watering hole for hedgehogs.
Garden warbler
A plain-looking warbler, the garden warbler is a summer visitor to the UK. It is a shy bird and is most likely to be heard, rather than seen, in woodland and scrub habitats.
Garden spider
Have you ever stopped to look at the shape of a spider web? Garden spiders spin a spiral shaped web, perfect for catching lots of juicy prey!
An extraordinary but ordinary garden
In the heart of mid Suffolk, a thoughtful approach by Kate and Dave have led to years of pleasure watching the wildlife respond to subtle changes they have made to their garden. An example for all…
Garden hedges for wildlife
Cathy Smith explores planting garden hedges.
Hedges, both urban and rural, can provide a plentiful larder for wildlife. The UK Biodiversity Group have shown that across Britain 600 species…