This Wild Space is a small private garden. In 2014 a mixed (Hazel, Holly and Hawthorn) hedge was planted to provide shelter from prevailing SW winds for a small area of wildflower grassland. The space provides foodplants for a range of butterfly and moth caterpillars – including Holly Blue, Speckled Wood, Knot Grass and Eyed Hawkmoth. It has ...
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Forest For Change
Community Space
This Wild Space is a community garden created to enhance an unloved area for local residents and for use as an educational space. Species planted included Ox-eye Daisy, Knapweed, Hawthorn, Buckthorn, Garlic Mustard, Betony and Hedge Bedstraw. A meadow was created by cutting back a hedge to allow more light and seeding with wildflowers including ...
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Kate’s Wild Border
Small Garden
This small garden Wild Space includes a border for wildlife. It’s about two metres long and half a metre to a metre wide and sits to one side of a small area of lawn. The border was sewn with native wildflower seed mix to help attract butterflies and moths.The space has been left to evolve in a natural way and, because it is not back over winter,
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Gravel To Green
Small Garden
This Wild Space is a small garden of approximately 75 square metres, consisting of a flowering lawn, flower beds, raised vegetable bed and a patio with pots. A variety of nectar plants were chosen to provide a mix of early and later flowering, with plants located in the sunniest area of the garden to help attract butterflies and moths.Flowering ...
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Steve’s Back Garden
Small Garden
This Wild Space consists of an area of lawn left untouched in a small private back garden, with a wilder area of nettles, leaves and sticks. The Wild Space is roughly 10 square metres.
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Salterton Road
Community Space
This Wild Space is an amenity grass area on a housing estate in inner city London. It was seeded with wildflower mix to help provide nectar sources for butterflies, moths and bees and shelter in long grass. The seed mix included annuals like Poppy, Daisy and Corncockle which flower in the first year and perennials like Knapweed and Yarrow which ...
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Kate’s Patio
Patio
This Wild Space consists of a few pots on some decking, chosen for their benefits for butterflies and moths as well as to create a space for the family to enjoy. They are scented and flower at different times of the year - including mint, jasmine, lilac and an apple tree.
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Wild Garden
Large Garden
This Wild Space was created in a medium-large private garden on a suburban housing estate, a short distance from local woods. It includes an area of wildflower grass, mature shrubs, borders, vegetable patch, fruit trees and hedgerow.No pesticides were used and areas of grass are kept at different lengths on rotation.Actions taken to create the ...
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Bristol Primary School
School
The school councillors at this Bristol Primary School carried out some simple assessment work in their school grounds to see how suitable it was for butterflies and moths. The children found that they already had some great caterpillar food plants (fruit trees, willows, wildflowers and long grass) but that they really needed to add some extra ...
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Balcony Garden Stirling
Balcony
This Wild Space is on a small balcony of a first floor flat in Stirling. It is roughly south-facing, so gets the sun for much of the day. There are two larger planters on the ground, containing perennial plants (honeysuckle, lavender, Sea holly, Lamb’s-ear, Chives), bulbs (Iris and Muscari), and annuals (Nasturtium, Bidens). The smaller planters ...
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Folly Lane Allotments
Community Space
This Wild Space was created on a plot in urban allotment. It was planted to support butterflies and moths, as well as to grow fruit and vegetables. The space is roughly 30 x 10 metres in size.The space includes a large, sunny nettle-bed and a planted hedge of Holly and Alder Buckthorn, as well as a small chalk bank with Kidney Vetch and Bird's-foot ...
