Signs of Spring

The snowdrops are now be appearing in gardens and the countryside. There should also start to be activity in garden ponds. Listen out for the croaking of frogs attracting mates and frogspawn should be appearing soon. Building rockpiles and stone walls will help provide shelter for frogs and toads. You will find a large range of products to help you find out about the wildlife in you pond here.

Bees, Butterflies and Blooms

I hope everyone has been watching Bees, Butterflies and Blooms on BBC2 if not you can catch up on iPlayer. Help bees out buy planting flowers that encourage our pollinators, look out for the symbols in garden centers or buy seeds here. Early Spring is the ideal time to put Bumblebee Boxes in place ready for when the queens emerge and start looking for nesting places. We also have a superb FSC Foldout Guide to Bees which includes Bumblebees.

BTO National Nestbox Week

This week the BTO have their annual National Nestbox Week to encourage people to put up new nestboxes for a variety of birds. It is also worth helping the birds out by providing nesting material. Dried grass, moss raked from the lawn, sheeps wool, hair clippings (human or pet) and even the fluff from your tumble dryer can be placed in fat ball holders or similar for the birds to collect. You can buy nestboxes and nesting wool here, we also have a Buy 2 Get 1 Free offer on Wool Refills.

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