Advantages of a friendly conservation garden
Introduction
A friendly garden with wildlife is an important part of sustainable life today. Urban gardens have an important role to play. I’ve been talking to Fern Alder, a winter garden designer who has designed gardens at the main flower fairs such as The Rhs Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Garden Festival. Fern garden;Fern’s garden is a long and thin urban garden, but it is unusual because it ends in an old forest strip. This photograph was taken in September.
Developing
A wildlife impacts many issues. First, there is the ‘Armageddon of insects’, for example, which is the extinction of insects. Many insect populations are a fraction of what they were. As insects are at the bottom of the food chain and we at the top, the loss of so many insects has serious potential consequences for our food supply. And other wild animals are also fighting. Common birds of gardens and pollinating insects are suffering widely the decrease in populations.
Then there is the loss of soil fertility, caused by excessive agriculture. And there are sudden floods, mainly caused by the growing carpet of concrete and brick that covers the earth. So what can we do about it? Fern’s garden has just appeared in the United Kingdom Gardening magazine Gardens Illustrated. The photographer, Sarah Cuttle, described Fern’s garden as ‘the future of gardening, sustainable, all about wildlife and total joy to spend time’. Fern’s garden has been described as the ‘future of gardening’ in Gardens Illustrated.
Fern’s priorities are plants and wildlife. Look at wildlife in your garden. Fern says that he liked to observe wildlife in his garden during closing. When many of us are in various forms of restriction, taking care of the garden is good for our mental health. Fern has seen sparrows taking a sage and a reyezuelo running from the bottom of his door in search of cobwebs and spiders, which the reeyzuelos enjoy. He also enjoys seeing birds bathe.
I saw a mirlo giving a really long bath: he took a good shake and then thought a little and then another shake. There were two petirrojos looking, and when the mirlo ended, they took care of the bird bath, so they were waiting for their turn. The number one council for friendly gardens with wildlife. A friendly garden with wildlife must have at least one source of water, says Fern, however small. Insects and birds need to drink and bathe. Fern has a small stream that crosses his garden, but also has a mini pond hidden by some pots and a bird bath.
A bird’s drinking fountain is essential for friendly gardening with wildlife. Fern has a mini pond and a bird bath, as well as a stream that crosses the garden. Having water in different places means that the largest and smaller birds do not have to compete with each other. ‘Be sure to have different depths,’ he says. The different creature sizes have different needs and also makes it easier to get out. I have a mini pond made of a barrel of high sides, so I put a smaller dish, more maceteros inside so that there are many different depths.
See how to make a mini wild life pond here. Fern suggests that he can use anything, even a loss of dumps fur like bird bath. Interestingly, that’s exactly what I have and provides a good shower full of water. In mosquito -prone countries, there are problems to leave stagnant water. See local tips and regulations, but supply the pond with fish or keep moving water with a pump can help a lot.
Minimize the use of chemicals;This is Fern’s number 2 council for a friendly garden with wildlife. And I have interviewed several gardeners in chief this year. I was surprised by the amount of chemicals that many main gardeners use. Neil Miller of Hever Castle Gardens told me about the cultivation of roses. He says that the aphids cover the roses for a few weeks at the beginning of the summer, but does not take any measure. The predators soon accumulate and after three weeks they have gone.
Thirty years ago, gardening consisted of controlling pests, but now there is much more awareness of the role that each insect has to play in the ecosystem. For example, the Horticultural Royal Society suggests that you simply leave the ants if you have them in the garden or sprinkle the ants with water with water. You don’t have to be hard and fast with this. Just look what happens if you do nothing. For example, both the viburnum beetle and the black spot in the roses are antistnetic. But they don’t do much damage to the plant.
It is possible that predators take time to develop, so if it does not have an instant success, do not give up. In addition, as Fern says, plants are more likely to contract pests and diseases when they are not happy. Healthy plants do not have so many problems or, if they have them, they notice less. For example, a large and healthy dalia may be a few leaves, but you will not notice, but if the slugs eat some leaves of a plant that is fighting, it is possible that it is not even surviving.
The soil is living matter and needs care. I used to think about the ground as an inanimate substance, but in reality it is a living organism. It is a huge ecosystem. Fern told me that there are more microorganisms in this teaspoon of land than people on earth. And you can confirm it on the website of the United States Department of Agriculture. The importance of the soil;That includes bacteria, algae, microscopic insects that you cannot see as well as the ones you can see, such as beetles, ants and mites. There are fungi, microbes, nematodes and more.
Everyone needs food, so adding garden, mulch and manure fertilizer improves their soil. All also have their own interrelated structure. The excavation breaks this and can damage many of them. The study of the US Department of Agriculture. UU. He said that often the healthiest soil of a farmer was in the limits where he had not been excavated or cultivated. Soil fertility is falling quickly worldwide. Ultimately, this endangers our food supply as well as the loss of pollinating insects.
A light hand with hard landscaping, the soil also stores water. It’s like a sponge that absorbs rain and keeps it there. So, when covered with asphalt, stone or concrete, you can’t do that. Heavy rains will fall for our drainage systems that will be flooded. That is why Fern advises ‘a light hand with hard landscaping’ for a friendly garden with wildlife. Friendly garden with wildlife;Fern’s garden has a ‘light hand’ with the hard landscape. There is a terrace outside the back door and a single road, made of recycled car tires, which passes through the middle.
The US Department of Agriculture. UU. He says that to keep his soil healthy, he must see him as little as possible. That means covering it with plants or mulch and diging it as little as possible. Friends in Australia use their cut garden cuts like mulch. Suppress the weeds and, finally, it breaks down to feed the ground and we have also begun to do this with the grass cuts and crushers of the garden crusher. The shelter is important for wildlife, especially in winter.
Fern says that it is not always necessary to buy things to maintain wildlife. Although I think some hotels for insects and bird boxes look pretty beautiful. We just bought some boxes of bats and Fern also has some. Bird boxes;One of Fern’s bird boxes, but you don’t have to spend money, he says. But the lots of old leaves and trunks will also be a good shelter for many small beasts. And perennial leafy plants, such as ivy, will house birds. Fern’s garden is a long and thin urban garden and ends in a long protected forest section.
He has cleaned some brambles and a couple of dead trees to make a place to sit down, but he has left the trunks and roots of the trees there so that they are naturally broken down. These offer many opportunities for wildlife. ‘Perforas the end of the trunks to make a home for lonely bees,’ he says. Above all, leave lots of leaves and twigs in the corners. The insects will take refuge there and the birds will enjoy collecting the leaves in search of sweets for insects and slugs. Winter flowers are important to pollinate insects.
The flowers you have depend on how the winter where you live, but here in the United Kingdom, ivy blooms at the beginning of winter. If you do not want ivy, Fern points out that Fatsia is part of the ivy family and is very complacent in all kinds of gloomy and gloomy positions in the garden. Fatsia a friendly plant with wildlife. Fatsia is a member of the ivy family and blooms late. ‘One last meal for bees before winter,’ says Fern. Fern’s garden includes plants such as thistle that have seeds for wildlife at this time of year.
With his garden designer hat, he also says they provide a lovely structure. He has also added fruit trees to his garden because fruit provides fruits for wildlife, as well as spring flowers for bees and general enjoyment. Other winter flowers for a friendly garden with wildlife. Other winter flowers in the United Kingdom include Mahonia (and there is a new version without thorns by Mahonia Soft Cares, which you can see in the video below). Winter flowers, like thoughts, are not usually very good because they don’t have an open heart to the flower. Polyinizing insects need to penetrate the flower, so look for individual flowers.
conclusion
Fern also comments that plants that bloom in winter are often very scented to point to pollinators. Some examples are the sweet box and the Hamamelis, as well as the Mahonia. At the end of winter / principles of spring, winter bells, primulas, pulmonary, hellobores, Bergenia and anemones appear, which will grow in much colder climates than in the United Kingdom. Fern gets many of his exchanges plants from local plants, both formal and informal, so it is always worth looking for a or organizing it yourself.
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