Category: Wildlife Garden

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Does Putting Up a Nest Box in Your Garden Encourage Predators?

    Does Putting Up a Nest Box in Your Garden Encourage Predators?

    Written by Simon King  Many years ago, I developed the revolutionary nester design which, with our sister company Wildlife World, has evolved into the enormously successful Brushwood Nester and its companion nesters, the Cabin Nester and the Wreath Nester. Its simple but unique design principle of a hidden recess with a protected landing platform, appeals…

  • How to Help Your Garden Robins to Nest

    How to Help Your Garden Robins to Nest

    Known as the loyal gardener’s friend, the red breasted robin is a familiar sight in our back gardens. As you potter around your veg patch and borders doing various jobs, you’ll often notice a robin over your shoulder, watching and following you as you turn over the soil to uncover a worm or ground beetle.…