Articles related to "Wildlife Friendly"

A wildlife pond is an excellent addition to a garden. Frogs will eat common garden pests like slugs. Birds like robins and blue tits will appreciate the insect activity.

Creating a natural pond is the most important thing you can do to attract wildlife into the garden. Provide a few creature comforts and it will soon be a wildlife haven.

Attracting birds to the garden landscape can be easy for gardeners who plant these shrubs that feed and house native bird species.

Bees are essential for pollination in nature, but there has been a drastic decline in their numbers around the world. This threatens many of our foods.

Hybrid automobiles and reusable shopping bags are one way to go green. But to truly benefit the environment you are trying to protect you have to start outside.

Overwintering Teasel attracts small birds, like buntings, goldfinches, sparrows, to its super-sized brown seedheads. Gardeners can encourage self-sowing teasel in spring.

Gardeners must be amongst the easiest people to buy Christmas presents for. With so much choice there is something to suit everyone whatever their gardening preferences.

A reivew of the four key aspects of human-animal conflict, how we help create problems and how they affect the animals involved.

National Wildlife Federation program encourages organic gardening, use of native plants and improved habitat for local wildlife including songbirds, butterflies and frogs

The National Marine Sanctuary Program has launched a national ocean awareness campaign featuring "Sanctuary Sam", a California sea lion as their program representative

Cowslips (Primula veris) readily self seed in Spring. Gardeners can use propagation methods to encourage cowslips to grow in their backyard woodlands and meadow gardens.

Wood sage (Salvia nemorosa) cultivars can be a gardener's magnet attracting beneficial insects including bees and butterflies to their nectar-rich stands of flowers.

Renowned biologist, eco-psychologists and "green" builders agree that interaction with nature is vital to our wellbeing. Here are simple ways to add nature to each day.

Monarda didyma is highly attractive to hummingbirds, honeybees and butterflies, as well as providing weeks of colorful blooms each summer and early fall. Learn more!

Let's examine some specific plants with red or pink winter berries now that you've learned some general tips for berries in the winter landscape.

Hedges comprised of native plants make the most wildlife friendly garden boundaries, providing food, nesting sites and shelter for birds, small mammals and invertebrates.