beach chick Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 our county Wildlife Trust does an awards scheme for wildlife friendly gardens - you fill in a form, and they send someone along to see what your garden has to offer, how to improve it etc. then you might get an award in due course. anyway, I entered, and have just had my visit! a lovely lady came along, with her husband who is an insect expert among other things, and we toured the garden and they took photos of various bugs. I learnt loads - what species some of the bees are (we have tree bumbles nesting by the gate - most inconvenient! but they like it so there they stay...), saw a thick-thighed flower beetle (oo-er!), and had a lovely chat generally about wildlife, what we get here, how we can get more etc. as we were discussing birds which visit us, her hubby looked up and said "oh look there's a hobby" (a type of hawk) which was really exciting! I've seen sparrowhawks here but wouldnt previously have recognised a hobby hawk. anyway, apparently we have fantastic habitat, mostly due to my extreme laziness, and they were most impressed by our logpiles - of which we have at least 5. she said "I've seen some logpiles but never this many or this big"!! we dont have a pond as such (although we do have a boggy area), but I am now inspired to start with a pond in a pot... (sorry mods if this is not nesting box material - should it be in all creatures? if so please move) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Well done - fingers crossed for you I really like the sound of this - it would help me convince my mother there is method in my gardening, and a few other people as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Sounds brilliant! Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Your garden sounds brilliant; I fancy a visit myself! Pictures please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Well done . Your garden sounds fab - I agree we need photos though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 24, 2011 Author Share Posted June 24, 2011 thank you - to be honest I doubt I will get an award though! my boo-boos were: - saying I was quite pragmatic about wildlife, it's a garden and our space as well as a wildlife home, so I do reserve the right to have some bits that look like a garden rather than masses of nettles/weeds... - admitting to owning 3 cats!!! could feel the temperature dropping at that point... there are some photos in the 'self sufficient' section I think on a couple of threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
