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  • How to Grow a Wildflower Patch

    How to Grow a Wildflower Patch

    Planting native wildflower seeds in your garden is an incredibly beneficial act for the wildlife visiting it, and it turns into a stunning display of colour for your benefit as well. “If you are lucky enough to have any patch of ground, then there’s loads of opportunity to work the ground, get your physical exercise, and…

  • How to Clear Out a Nest Box

    How to Clear Out a Nest Box

    As the winter approaches, should you do anything about the nest boxes you put up last spring? Is it best to leave them alone? Or should you give them a good old clear out ready for new inhabitants next year? Many of us will have put up nest boxes around our gardens last springtime with…

  • Simon’s Christmas Gift Guide

    Simon’s Christmas Gift Guide

    Our top ten presents for wildlife lovers this Christmas, recommended by Simon King Are you looking for the perfect present for the wildlife-friendly gardener in your life? We all love to gift unusual, exciting, and thoughtful presents for friends and family and this Christmas is no different. After a difficult year, but one which thankfully…

  • A Christmas Wreath for Wildlife

    A Christmas Wreath for Wildlife

    The Simon King Wreath Nester is our number one new gift for Christmas this year. This unique nester is designed, first and foremost, as a sanctuary for the smaller birds visiting your garden this winter. Birds such as robins, wrens, and the tits, who need somewhere sheltered to escape the wind and the rain, and…

  • Wildlife-friendly Gardening Tips For the Summer

    Wildlife-friendly Gardening Tips For the Summer

    Under the impression that there isn’t much for you to do during the summer to help the wildlife in your garden? Although we put emphasis on the spring and autumn as being those seasons when our garden wildlife needs us the most, in fact, there is no let up year round. And there’s much you…

  • How To Attract Bats To Your Garden

    How To Attract Bats To Your Garden

    The more we can do for bats in Britain, the more we can stem their current decline. According to the Bat Conservation Trust, our populations of bat species in the UK have declined considerably over the last century. Their principal threat is loss of habitat, but also food. As Simon himself says, “Bats in the…