Mother's Day Gift Guide
Shop our selection of gifts in time for Mothering Sunday at our visitor centres or online. Discover our choice of Mother's Day gifts for homebirds, gardeners and bookworms - perfect for every wildlife enthusiast.
Our Concise Guides offer a thorough understanding on a variety of topics relating to native species. They are a really handy size - small enough to fit into a rucksack and light enough to carry on even the longest hike! View the entire range here.
In this passionate and insightful book written to ignite awareness of the environmental crisis, author Sophie Pavelle embarked on several low-carbon journeys, either by foot, bike, electric car, kayak, ferry or train, to see ten rare native species on the brink of extinction.
Forget Me Not was awarded Non-Fiction Winner 2023 from The People's Book Prize. Shop online here.
For Homebirds:
Sarah Edmonds is a UK artist with a range of bright and characterful designs inspired by wildlife. Her collection includes mugs, coasters, tea towels and notebooks.
One of our favourite gifts in this range is the INSECTABET tea towel, featuring an alphabet of beetles, bugs, butterflies and all kinds of creepers and crawlers.
This Lemon Cream Body Bar fits neatly into the palm of your hand and is packed with skin loving plant butters and oils to deeply moisturise the skin and add a gentle scent.
Ingredients: Cocoa Butter (cocos nucifera),Shea Butter (butyrospermum parkii),Sweet Almond oil (prunus amygdalus dulcis), Beeswax (cera alba), essential oils
For Gardeners:
Unlike bumblebees and honeybees, most bees in the UK do not live in colonies. Instead, they are known as solitary bees. To attract solitary bees to your garden this spring, install a bee home (right).
This Bee Log has been hollowed out and filled with special nesting canes with hole sizes specified to attract non-swarming bees like the Red Mason and Leafcutter bees.
Mary In The Wild seed kit contains all of the things you will need to make your own seed bombs including clay, potting discs and seeds.
Simply follow the instructions on the enclosed leaflet to make your seed bombs, then throw or sow on a bare patch of soil and watch them grow! Each kit should make 20-30 seed bombs.
If you want to attract more bees, birds, frogs and hedgehogs into your garden, look no further than Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything.
Kate Bradbury offers tips on feeding your neighbourhood wildlife and explains how you can create the perfect habitats for species you'd like to welcome into your garden. Includes handy charts tailored to the needs of every size and style of garden.
Something a bit different:
Our special North East Magnesian Limestone Nature Reserves mean that we have internationally significant grassland meadows to look after. By dedicating a square metre in celebration or in memory of a loved one, you will be keeping a special place well looked after for years to come.