Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
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How wild are we? Insights into your gardens
In Spring 2020, we launched our citizen science program - “How Wild Are We?” You told us what wildlife you could see from your windows, who visited your balcony and what creatures were living in…
Wild about hedgehogs
Hedgehogs are disappearing from our countryside as fast as tigers are worldwide – a shocking situation for a species that was once common. However, with around fifteen million gardens in the UK,…
Wild about heather
To sweeten the blow of summer drawing to a close, nature has one more display of striking colour before the muted tones of autumn kick in. This comes in the form of heather. This hardy plant…
My Garden of a Thousand Bees
Locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, My Garden of a Thousand Bees follows acclaimed wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he sets out to record all the bee species in his tiny urban garden in…
How the birds in our gardens can help us
Our friends at Vine House Farm tell us how our garden birds can help us during this unprecedented time, and how in turn we can help them.
Unexpected garden visitors
If you have a garden there are likely a few creatures, particularly birds, that you are quite used to seeing on the feeders and darting between hedges and shrubs. But what about the more unusual…
Garden Birds
Can you spot Britain's top ten garden birds in your garden? Find out how to identify common garden birds and how you can attract birds to your garden.
How wild are we? Insights into our garden invertebrates.
Team Wilder member, Gemma Paul and her son enjoyed looking for invertebrate minibeasts in their garden the other day. They're helping us answer the question, ''How wild are we?…
Go Wild for Worms!
This year’s Wild About Gardens challenge from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and The Wildlife Trusts is all about worms.
Bird sightings at Testwood Lakes in December 2017
From swans to shovelers, here are 47 species of bird that visitors to Testwood Lakes spotted in December 2017.
Garden dragons
If you have a wildlife pond you may well have dragons visiting your garden! These beautiful insects are awesome fliers and fearsome predators, and they are a real joy to watch. This week, we take…