The Wildlife Garden

By Oliver W Dickinson

Contents

1. What is a wildlife garden

2. How to make a wildlife garden

3. Wildlife gardens and conservation

4. Planting schemes and management techniques for the wildlife garden

5. A final summary for the wildlife garden

6. Top tips

7. Where to find further information 

1. What is a wildlife garden?

To answer this question best you must first understand the history of gardens and the develop..

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The wildlife ponds main difference to a traditional pond is normally the lack of fish. Fish could be used in the wildlife pond in some cases but only certain kinds of fish because some species will decimate populations of insect larvae and plants trying to establish in the pond. Furthermore, if fish are used, a lot more effort is required to establish a balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity. Most people choose not to use fish in a wildlife pond because there interest lies in the other flora and fau..

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Wildlife garden

The first stage was to prune some of the hawthorn to allow access and space to work. Some of the brash from this was used to make a dead hedge. At a later stage the remaining hawthorn will be laid to plug the gap and create a thick hedge, young native hedging plants will also be planted. Next topsoil was cleared from the site, which was taken by “ward recycling” and the stone and brick, which was dug up, saved for use later in the retaining wall and footings. All this work was..

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Habitat development...The wall is under a stewardship

scheme and is being rebuilt. Stewardship schemes aim to

protect biodiversity and help species survive. This means

the foundations are rebuilt only if needed and the wall has

to be above 120cm. 192 meters done - 8 to go!

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Swamps, marshes, fens and bogs are all types of wetland classified by A. G. Tansley. He studied the characteristics of different wetlands and came up with the classification based on the amount of water present and the type of substratum.

Swamps are the wettest of all the four types classified and will probably have a high water level all year round.

Marsh has only some water above ground level, which rarely rises even in winter. The substrata of a marsh, is composed of inorganic material l..

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Walls and ditches just like hedgerows where a method of making a boundary when early man first settled. Although they are different all three provide habitat for wildlife. One of the things these types of boundaries have in common is that they are all linear habitats and could potentially link two other different habitats. This important feature of being able to provide a link or corridor between habitat means they have special conservation value.

Walls, ditches and hedges apart from being linear..

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This is the blog for Habitat development. I set up Habitat development in July 2009 as a conservation based landscape architect. The idea is to try and get houses, schools and businesses to enter into a responsible gardening scheme as well as designing planting schemes and growing. The company also undertakes survey work and the creation and management of habitat such as meadow, woodland and wetland. I intend to stick to very strict environmental procedures and to be as transparent as possible. To help..

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