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2. How to benefit the wildlife in and around your garden.

Grow nectar-laden flowers for the bees. These insects are diminishing frighteningly fast, and without bees to pollinate our food crops, the world will lose a third of its food.
Grow plants to attract all sorts of insects, which in turn provide food for other creatures.
Provide sites and materials for bird , bat and insects nests.
Prune hedges once the bird nesting season has finished.
Provide water for birds and other creatures.
Provide a pond for frogs, toads and newts - they'll soon move in.
Provide hibernating places.
Provide roosting places.
Put out special food for birds and other creatures during difficult times.
Don't tidy up too much. Leave seedheads for winter birdfood, and flowerstalks for winter shelter for beneficial creepy-crawlies.
Only use pesticides (weedkillers, fungicides, insecticides) when absolutely essential, and if you must use them, reduce the risk to bees by only applying at dusk, when they should be safely tucked up in their hives. Bees are under such pressures, that even if the chemical is not designed to kill insects, it's not worth the risk of exposing the bees to it.
Protect pondlife, watercourses and ground water from garden chemicals (pesticides and fertilisers) by following all instructions and only using when absolutely necessary. Remember that heavy rain can wash chemicals off plants and the ground into nearby ponds, ditches, gutters and drains, to the detriment of those dependent on this water (which includes us!).

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