Welcome to The Georgian Wildlife Garden 🌿
In this video, filmed yesterday, I take you on a tour of our one acre garden surrounding a beautiful Georgian home built in the late 1700s and share my plans to turn it into a true sanctuary for nature.
Since moving here in March 2025, I’ve already begun making changes for wildlife…but this is only the beginning. Over the coming weeks and months, this garden will become a place for:
🐝 – Wildflowers and pollinators
🦔 – Hedgehogs and habitat corridors
🐸 – Ponds and wetland life
🕊️ – Birds, insects, and natural balance
🌱 – A wilder, richer future for everything that lives here
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35 Comments
This all sounds absolutely fantastic Joel! Love how the pond is shaping and alsoall the beautiful snowdrops. Thanks for a lovely walkthrough and looking forward to seeing your plans realised over the next year 🤗👍🐝🌿🦉 PS lovely to see your Tai Haku Nikki, it's stunning! You'll love Japan Joel! 👍🤗🌸🌸🌸
I really enjoy your videos. I live in Adelaide South Australia and I’m trying hard to make a garden that attracts insects, birds and wildlife. Like you I have dogs. I just wondered if you are concerned about bulbs in the dogs area and that they are toxic if eaten? I’m finding it difficult to only have non toxic to dogs plants in the area where my dogs go.
My favourite apple is the Ashmeads Kernel a lovely late apple.
Will the pond have water in time for this seasons frogs toads etc as its getting a bit late. Have you considered a temporary pond so that you don’t miss this season?
Doing the same thing, creating a wildlife garden. However some plants have difficulties developing because of voles digging tunnels around/beneath them, disturbing the roots and exposing them to air. I have the idea their growth is severely stunned because of this. Is there anything that I can do to help the plants settle in better. I don't really mind the voles; I would rather not treat them as pests, they are food for the buzzards flying around. Or should I reconsider?
wild garlic smells absolutely divine, i love it!
What a fabulous space to make your dreams come true. Looking forward to the transformations. Great work Joel 👌
How lovely! The native helebores are so special and I love the snowdrops and bluebells. Thank you for all your hard work and for educating all of us who love to learn.
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You may encourage more bumblebees from giving the wood mice a hand as they like to use their abandoned nests. The plan sounds great Joel!
Thank you for taking us on this wonderful journey with you and look forward to each new update.
Lovely to see the snowdrops and blue skies,absolutely stunning!
Excellent video, Joel. Lovely way to spend forty minutes in the 'Old Country', and inspirational along the way. Kudos to you, sir.
Really enjoy these videos for the space you have there, it will be a sanctuary, I am buying a newer bigger house next yeah to convert into wildlife space, and I have left the legacy of the old house with lots of native shrubs, wildflowers, new native trees and log piles, ponds etc.
Amazing to see Joel. Have you thought about trying making a hoverfly lagoon. I have personally had a huge success after following the lovely Dave Goulsons videos👍
Thanks here's a few quid for a few more bulbs etc It's an amazing space and I know you will enhance it for full potential It may well be the next knepp
Grey partridge! Wow I have never seen one. Well done for filing them. I hope they have a good breeding year.
What do you think about the issue of deer in projects such as these. Our garden is a similar size we border fields graze heavily by horses and an ancient wood. But deer are visiting us regularly. I love to see and watch them but they eat alot of plants that have taken alot time and effort to establish. Any tips, we dont want to go dowen the ugly deer fencing route.
It's a wonder the grey partridge survive at all. People love to shoot them.😢
Fantastic. Good luck and look forward to the transformations.
Blackthorn is a good source of early pollen for bees.
I'm the worst about leaving my tools in random places lol. Enjoying watching your garden transformation!
Welcome back home to Lincolnshire, friend. Kudos on the beautiful garden. Given that Lincs is very agricultural with a heavy pesticide and fertiliser load, I'm curious to hear of the impacts of the surrounding agricultural landscape on the colonisation of your garden by species with lesser dispersal abilities, particularly that of your soil mesofauna and insect diversity 🎉❤
Fabulous garden… enjoy!
It’s going to look fantastic. I can’t wait to see your pond.
Forgotten steel garden tools (forgotten by the wife) has cost me lots of time & money fixing my lawn mower. 🥲
Nice to see someone giving back to nature.For a change.
Do you get rabbits in your garden and do you mind them.
I love your channel! I live in Pennsylvania!! Eastern USA. Do you own the property beyond the hedges????
What a stunning property and plan!
I'm so happy your family now has stewardship of such a large property where you can really dream big and take full advantage of it.
I know it will make such a huge impact on the local wildlife as well as inspiring so many others globally.
I cant wait to see how it evolves over time. And what surprises nature will bring to your oasis!
Absolutely love seeing your update videos , can't wait to see who wins the race to inhabit the Bird boxes you have put up too.
I asked at our local garden centre for wild garlic and he snorted at me and said he didn't stock that weed, and that his daughter was spending all her time trying to eradicate it from her garden! We do have a very small number of plants that we are trying to nurture so we can spread them. In some of the garden, the conditions are perfect for them.
It will be wonderful to follow this project of yours. I love when we think of the wildlife in the garden, it makes it so much more interesting. You are a great inspiration to us garden lovers.
Looks great already and so much to come! Look forward to following along over the seasons.
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What a beautiful place! I'm also creating a woodland area in the garden this year but on a waaaay smaller scale 🤣 with a mixture of native and some non native plants but I'm hoping it will come up together nicely. Can't wait to see your progress especially that I haven't visited your channel for some time…
A great video😊 happy growing 🌱