Encourage wildlife to your garden

Increasing the biodiversity of your plot doesn't have to be hard, or compromise the way your garden looks.

Here are a few small changes you could make to the way you manage your garden that can bring major benefits for the creatures that call it home.

Choosing the right flowers

Flowers provide pollen and nectar for bees, butterflies and other insects that perform the vital task of fertilisation – seed and fruit production would drop dramatically without them.  Avoid too many highly bred cultivars with big and blowsy or double flowers, most of which contain little or no pollen or nectar.

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