Gardening for Wildlife

General ideas and advice

• Devon Wildlife Trust Wildlife Garden Award
• PTES Useful tips and ideas
• The Wildlife Trusts Useful tips and ideas
• Wild about Gardens Website General advice from the Wildlife Trusts and RHS
• Friends of the earth Guide to wildlife gardening
• ERCCIS – Wildlife in your Garden FAQs General advice
• Guardian 12 tips on gardening for wildlife
• Blue Campaign Advice on rewilding gardens, parks, road verges and school grounds

Birds

• PTES How to bring songbirds into your garden

Compost

• Guidance on composting by Nicky Scott (Dr Compost), a local expert

Environmentally friendly pest control

• RSPB How to deal with pests without using pesticides

Hedges

• RSPB Garden hedge creation and management

Insects

• The Wildlife Trusts Action for Insects How to encouraging insects into your garden (pdf)
• UK Butterflies Larval foodplant list

Lawns

• RSPB Encouraging wildlife into your lawn
• RHS How to create a wildflower lawn (pdf)

Plants

• RHS Plants for Pollinators Guide
• RHS Plants that provide seed for birds (pdf)

Ponds

• British Dragonfly Society Garden pond and Habitat management
• Freshwater habitats Trust Pond creation and management

Golf Courses

• Bumblebee Conservation Trust Managing golf courses for bumblebees