Attracting Wildlife To Your Garden

• Grow wild flowers
• Use butterfly-attracting plants such as buddleia
• Keep a wild patch - allow 'weeds' such as stinging nettles to grow (some butterflies lay their eggs on these)
• Have a compost heap
• Stay away from pesticides
• Put out bird food and a birdbath
• Have a log pile
• Leave out tit-bits for the birds (but not overnight, can attract rats)
• Have a small pond
• Let grass on the boarders grow a little longer - encourages insects
• Grow fruit and veggies
• Keep ontop of watering the plants
• Try to have as many native plant species as possible
• A sheet of metal laid down attracts lizards and snakes
• Allow trees to grow tall
• Deter cats