How to build a pond
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts. Any pond can become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats – the best…
Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.
Build your own bug mansion and attract a multitude of creepy crawlies to your garden.
Swifts like to leave their nests by dropping into the air from the entrance. This is why they often choose to set up camp in the eaves of buildings. If you have a wall that's at least five…
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
Discover some of the special species living in a garden pond, with entomologist Ben Keywood.
Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
Here at RWT we work to support individuals and groups who want to make positive change in their community. A blog witten by Community Organising Manager, Jenny Mottershead.
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
A tussocky sedge, Greater pond sedge has stout, upright flower spikes, strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils.