Mullein Caterpillar on Mullein - Photo by Ann Paull

Room for another!

With the modern way of building and garden fashions, many of the nooks and crevices that our wildlife used have gone.

To help these creatures, why not make a home for nature.  Bird boxes, bat boxes, hedgehog homes and insect houses are all fairly easy to make and plans of how to make them can be found on the internet.

You don’t have to stick to traditional, be creative.  Hedgehog homes could be a large upturned flowerpot or an old washing up bowl with a door cut in the side.  Insect houses or hotels can be made out of literally anything, for example, an old 1 litre bottle with the large end cut off and then stuffed fall of twigs or bamboo, hanging from a bush.

What ever you make, it will make you feel proud when you see wildlife move in.