But even if you don’t have a garden, balconies, windowsills and doorsteps can provide vital resting and refuelling spaces for our wildlife. Below you’ll find multiple links to information to help you create a wildlife hotspot on your doorstep.
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Wildlife friendly planting
- Make new wildlife friendly plants to share: RSPB – make new wildlife plants
- Grow a tree for wildlife: RSPB – grow a tree
- Grow flowers for butterflies: RSPB – grow flowers for butterflies
- Grow food for moths: RSPB – grow food for moths
- Grow flowers for bees: RSPB – grow flowers that bees love
- Gardening for bees: Devon Wildlife Trust – get your garden buzzing
- Planting in containers: The wildlife Trust – make a container garden for wildlife
- Create a vertical garden: The Wildlife Trust – vertical gardening
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Sustainable practices
- Create nature highways and byways: RSPB – create nature highways and byways
- The Wildlife Trust’s Guide to Wildlife Gardening: Devon Wildlife Trust – Wildlife Gardening
- Go Chemical free in your garden: The Wildlife Trust – How to make your garden chemical free
- Go Peat free in your garden: The Wildlife Trust – How to go peat free at home
- Reduce water consumption in your garden: RSPB – Eco garden tips
- Make a compost heap: RSPB – make a compost heap
- Create a leaf mould cage: RSPB – create a leaf mould cage
- Make your own peat free compost: The wildflower garden – Peat free gardening
- Exeter Wildlife Gardening Award: Devon Wildlife Trust – Exeter Wildlife Gardening Award
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Building bug, bat and bird boxes
- Build a bug Hotel: RSPB – Build a Bug Hotel
- Build a bee hotel: The Wildlife Trust – Build a bee hotel
- Build a bat box: Peoples Trust for Endangered Species – Build a bat box
- Build a swift box: RSPB – Create a high home for swifts
- Build a bird box: RSPB – Build a bird box
- Build a bird bath: RSPB – DIY bird bath
- Provide bushes for nesting birds: The Wildlife Trust – How to provide bushes for nesting birds
- Building a wildlife pond: The Wildlife Trust – How to build a pond
- Create a hedgehog hole: The Wildlife Trust – How to create a hedgehog hole
- Build a hedgehog home: The Wildlife Trust – How to build a hedgehog home
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Feeding birds and other wildlife
- Feed the hedgehogs: RSPB – make a hedgehog café
- Make bird feeders: Natural History Museum – How to make a bird feeder
- Make fat cakes for birds: National Trust – How to make fat cakes for birds