How gardeners can help Britain's wildlife

Kate Bradbury writes about how the countryside isn’t really able to support native wildlife anymore — and that we should try and use garden space to try and balance that.

Meadows, woodland, hedgerows, even long stubby bits of grass, all represent habitats for some creature or other. Gardens can’t make up for the loss of these landscapes, but they can provide habitats for some of our more adaptable wildlife.

We’ve just planted out a native hedge of Elderflower, Blackberries and Raspberries in our garden.

Plants like this are extremely cheap [1. You can get bareroot plants for pence when they are in season. See here] and grow like weeds with the added benefit of providing a glut of fruit and some much needed native habitat.