How to make a shrub garden for wildlife
Woody shrubs and climbers provide food for wildlife, including berries, fruits, seeds, nuts leaves and nectar-rich flowers. So why not plant a shrub garden and see who comes to visit?
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Swallowtail butterfly
The Norfolk broads are home to the UK's largest butterfly, the rare swallowtail. On a still summer's day, the swallowtail can be seen flying fast and feeding mainly on yellow and purple flowers, while its caterpillars hide among the milk parsley leaves they feed on.
Evening Cruise on the Fleet Explorer
This link will open on the Dorset Wildlife Trust website.
Join us for an evening cruise on the Fleet Explorer to discover the fascinating wildlife of Chesil and the Fleet Lagoon.
Butterfly Appeal
Help the large blue have a larger home by supporting our work in connecting up crucial grasslands vital for butterfly survival.
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
Bird / Butterfly Survey Volunteer
This link will open on the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust website.
We're looking for volunteer bird and butterfly surveyors in the Wolston/Ryton area. We also need a bird surveyor in the Snitterfield area.
Bush vetch
A scrambling plant, Bush vetch has lilac-blue flowers. It is a member of the pea family and can be seen along woodland edges and roadside verges, and on scrubland and grassland.
New Ferry Butterfly Park
This link will open on the Cheshire Wildlife Trust website.
An urban nature reserve developed on a former railway coal yard, goods yard and water softening plant.
Building a butterfly and moth garden in a disused quarry
A small, dedicated team of volunteers have come together to build a butterfly and moth garden.
Small white
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.
Rushcliffe Wildlife Watch: All About Trees
This link will open on the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust website.
Discover all about trees in the park, what is what and looking at their leaves and their fruits/nuts/seeds.
Celebrating Elke Mackenzie: Explorer, scientist and lichenologist, in honour of LGBTQ+ History Month
Finley Reynolds, Co-Chair of The Wildlife Trusts' Out for Nature network, explores the legacy of Elke Mackenzie—a trailblazing botanist and explorer whose lichenology work shaped natural…
Wildlife Explorers Family After School Course at the Centre for Wildlife Gardening
This link will open on the London Wildlife Trust website.
A free, fun after school course for families.