Here are some easy, effective tips from @Wild Your Garden with Joel Ashton that will help wildlife in your garden, but which won’t cost you too much time, effort or money.
00:00 Welcome
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01:10 What to do with a difficult shady corner video: https://youtu.be/C6F6Reobj78
01:20 Work with what you’ve got – try not to cut down trees or throw things away
02:13 Use your vertical space to create wildlife friendly features
02:51 Place bird feeders close to shelter not in the middle of the garden
03:30 Don’t mow your lawn or mow it less
04:30 Put in a wildlife pond
05:05 Research nesting boxes to make sure they’re the right ones and put them in the right places
05:59 Bats need nesting boxes on South and West facing sites (Northern hemisphere)
06:39 Can you turn a difficult shady corner into a wildlife haven?
08:22 Birds need nesting boxes on North and East facing sites (Northern hemisphere)
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20 Comments
Im in Australia & i see lots of sparrows down near our beach
the water in my garden is such a magnet for birds and insects. They're great to watch
Morning Alexander, so nice to listen to all the gardening tips, some I have forgotten about!! The placing of various accommodations for all our wildlife is really very important and it is better to get or read or research properly to avoid silly mistakes. The wildlife book is lovely and I am sure many do's and don'ts can be gathered. Seeds for the wild birds do become pricy, I like to plant some sorghum so they can come and sit and peck what they need. A pity about the collapsed pergola, that corner looks like a perfect spot to sit and just watch what's happening in your own yard. We all like changes, there is always a way to rebuild another in future. As always thank you for sharing and showing how things are done. Hope you had an enjoyable Easter. Kind regards.
Awesome tips. 😀
Are you going to try the wet cardboard and compost wildflower garden on your front patch of lawn this year? If adding only compost is too expensive, you, well in my city, you can get wood chips for free and put down a relatively thick layer of that and then a thinner layer of compost on top. Rake, then sow a wildflower mix of seeds, walk on the area on a large piece of cardboard to "set" the seeds and you'll have a beautiful meadow this summer! The UK probably has one, too, but in the US, there's a company called "American Meadows" that has wildflower seed packets (also in bulk) that are separated into specific climate zones and dry vs shady area packets.
Last fall, after everything had gone to seed and died, I pulled up the tall woody stemed flowers and let everything sit there over winter and this spring I added more wet cardboard on any spots where the grass had found its way through, added more compost, and plan to re-sow the leftover mix on it when it's time.
Also, since I buy everything online, I saved the boxes so the cardboard I laid down was also free.
I'd love to see a video on the process and the lovely wildflower garden it produces for you this summer.
Look up how Geoff Lawton in Australia taught us to do it. He's a no dig permaculturist who's taken his method throughout the world, including the greening of deserts!
birds are messy, and scatter the seed everywhere and it will root and grow, beware, also all the seed on the ground may call rats and mice, so beware
I got a beautiful birdhouse about 4 months ago. I now have a sweet blue bird family nesting inside! I also have two baths and several feeders. Right now my mahonias are loaded with berries and we have a flock of cedar waxwings that come in the evenings for dinner.
would a little pond work in your shady spot?
Really like this channel, I'd just like a bit more of Alexandra, bit less of the experts, just think she is an excellent narrator
I wonder how to create a small pond that's safe for children.
I'd like to attract the local frogs. What cover would keep them safe from cats and dogs?
That shady wall is crying out for a well trained hydrangea petiolaris, and even rose madame alfred carierre .
I was mowing my Mom’s lawn obviously in the daytime and a bat flew right into my face! Very upsetting and I needed to get Rabies shots that made me feel awful. No thank you to bat boxes!!!🙁
I feed the birds and have plenty of birdbaths. Crepes trees and shrubs for nesting .
Love this video so much. You have such a lovely gentle interview technique and you have such interesting thoughtful guests.
My 2 favourite gardening gurus in one video!
I dont need bird boxes, or any bird feeders. We have tall headges and trees in and outside of our garden, and many birds like sparrows, robins, black birds and pigeons live inside them and already feed of the nature. There are owls as well.
With the pond, I just improvised with a shallow dish, put water and twigs in it, to create slime, tucked it between 2 watering cans down the hedge, and covered to create an environment for frogs and hedgehogs.
I just love your brick wall ❤️
If I have a relatively new hopps still in a pot do I still have to cut that back in the winter?
I would smother me mother for those beautiful old brick walls. I do like this guy and I'm digging a pond out now as per his instruction vids but I hope he doesn't have you cover the walls completely.
I wish councils would stop mowing grass verges and plant wildflowers instead. I know some councils do this but not enough.