The best plants for bees and pollinators
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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Weird plants
From flowers that smell like wee to leaves that look like belly buttons, here are some of our strangest plants!
Make a wigwam for plants
Grow all sorts of vegetables and flowers up this cool wigwam!
How to plant a tree
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
Plant a bog garden
Make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature.
Hidden Giants
Discover the secret fungi that help trees and plants thrive!
London plane
The London plane tree is, as its name suggests, a familiar sight along the roadsides and in the parks of London. An introduced and widely planted species, it is tough enough to put up with city…
How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
My recovery plan
Michelle was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2014. After undergoing a life-saving operation and an intensive chemotherapy course, she is on the road to recovery.
Wildlife…
Berry paints
Get artistic with this activity!
Identify prints in the snow
Spotted animal prints in the snow? Identify the UK wildlife including rabbits, birds and otters whose footprints and tracks you might have seen in the snow.
Freshwater and wet places
Our wetlands range from small ponds and tiny streams to lengthy rivers like the Severn and huge wetlands like the Somerset Levels, East Anglian Fens and the Norfolk Broads.