How To Attract More Wildlife To A Garden

Alongside planting with wildlife in mind and letting the odd area grow wild and carefree, this short blog is about another way to attract even more diversity into your garden.

“During the past 100 years, the countryside has lost almost 70% of its ponds, resulting in the critically damaging reduction of a major form of habitat” Wildlife Gardening for Everyone: RHS & Wildlife Trust.

There is a wealth of wildlife that depends heavily on ponds for success. Swoopers, surface suckers and pluckers to a pond may include: pond skaters water beetles snails mayflies caddis flies damselflies dragonflies Remembering also, frogs, toads, newts (60cm depth), and birds.

If we had a pond in our wildlife garden we may have won a gold award this year, instead, we are delighted with our Silver Gilt. Pictured here, I’m showing off our certificate, after the “Guildford In Bloom” award ceremony at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.

My teenage daughter came along too, and understandably didn’t want to be featured in the photo with her embarrassing mother! We did get a pic together on the stage, and shared the free choc in our goody bags.

There is so much learning and fun to be had for kids around ponds, and in my experience of working in schools, they are sadly often very neglected and overgrown.

I spoke about wildlife gardening at September’s Random Dialogues “Stand UP & Speak For Yourself”, as seen below!

We have a simple pond bucket in our garden for now, which might be easier for you to try too.

However, the best ponds have shallow margins at the side and more space.

You can find out how to attract more wildlife to your garden with a pond in this article from the experts!

Warmly

Jane Tyson
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