Garden Pixies

07/05/2022

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05/03/2022

02/03/2022

What can you plant for bumblebees in March? 🌱

This month boost your flower power 🌼💪 with mint, hardy geraniums, bugle, or nasturtiums!

Full planting advice in our March menu 👉 http://ow.ly/a1rt50HuM1X

21/01/2022

You can do you bit for the bees 🐝 in a small garden or window box

Many urban gardens rich in pollinator-friendly plants and provide food all year round, find Bristol researchers

28/12/2021

To try to encourage everyone to in their gardens this winter season, we’ve created some Top Tips for helping butterflies and moths this winter 🦋 ❄️

One of the aims of Butterfly Conservation's new strategy is to tackle threats to wildlife - and this includes encouraging people to put their gardening tools down. By putting a pause on gardening for the winter, we can really help to give our butterflies and moths the space they need to overwinter safely 🍂 🌱

Take a look at our full article and see how you can help our butterflies and moths by doing nothing for nature! 👉 https://butrfli.es/3E0rFry

08/12/2021

It’s cold out here! Have a break from tidying and leave your garden for the overwintering critters. Lots of seed heads look beautiful in the frost and provide homes for insects. So make plans for next years wildlife friendly additions in the warm instead.

What’s in your leaf litter? 👀🍂

A pile of leaves is a great winter home for many caterpillars and pupae, which is why we’re asking you to join us and by leaving the leaves in your garden this winter! ❄️🐛🦋

Find out what might have made a home in your bed of leaves 👉 https://butrfli.es/3IuSoA0

📸 : Elephant Hawk-Moth cocoon

28/11/2021

And a bog is born. Looking forward to spring to see these damp loving plants getting established. A great alternative to a wildlife pond if you are worried about kids and pets. Increasing the biodiversity of this garden with more plant species that need a damp environment. 🐍🐸🐝🦋

23/10/2021

Jelly ear 👂This jelly ear fungi was a reminder to keep dead wood in your garden, even better if it’s still standing. Wood piles are great places for animals to hide and fungi to grow.

16/10/2021

Give them up!

What pesticides might be lurking at the back of your shed, garage or under the sink? Help protect nature in your neighbourhood and dispose of unwanted pesticides by joining in England’s first pesticide amnesty!

Organised by our partners at the Natural History Consortium,Bristol residents are invited to ditch their household chemicals at the pop-up events on October 23-24, helping to reduce the harmful pesticides impacting on the health of wildlife and people.
Find out more at ecologicalemergency.co.uk

If you do take part, why not log your action on our website? We're calling for 30% of our land and sea to be put into management for nature by 2030, and everyone's actions count - check out avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/30-30-action