How to garden for wildlife

Free guides

With over 15 million gardens in the UK covering 270,000 hectares, gardens cover more space than all the national nature reserves in the UK. Shropshire Wildlife Trust has produced a series of illustrated guides to bringing wildlife into your garden, which can be downloaded here.

Planting for wildlife

Composting

How to make a pond

Slugs and snails

Pests and guests

 

Wildlife Gardening for Everyone

A unique handbook crammed with advice on developing and cultivating a wildlife friendly garden.

Inspired by the Wild about Gardens project, this is a collection of the best advice from the British public and experts alike.

You can buy the book from Shropshire Wildlife Trust's shop.