Keep wildlife in mind as you prepare for autumn

As autumn arrives, there are plenty of things we can do in our gardens to help protect wildlife.

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While gardening you can help animals

Hopefully, most brown lawns are now turning back to a familiar shade of green after all the rain. It's worth remembering this next time, we experience drought in the UK that grass is quite resilient.

Unfortunately, so are weeds so it’s good to get on top of them now but please avoid using herbicides, pesticides in your garden.

These toxic 'forever' chemicals cause real harm to wildlife, such as bees.

While gardening you can help animals, such as hedgehogs who are looking for a winter home by leaving a small pile of leaves in a corner that won't be disturbed.

If there aren’t any gaps under your fence, you can cut a small hole so there’s a hedgehog ‘highway’ between your neighbours.