How to plant a tree
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Derwent Reservoir, the second largest reservoir in the North East, boasts a spectacular assemblage of plants across a diverse range of habitats surrounding its banks.
The lightbulb sea squirt is common around much of the UK. Its easy to see where its name came from!
The beautiful pink and white bands of a Painted topshell make it easy to see where this little sea snail got its name!
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
With their beautiful striped tentacles, it's easy to see where dahlia anemones got their floral name from. Look out for them next time you're rockpooling!
It's easy to see where this stunning bivalve got its name from - the bright orange tentacles emerging from the shell really do look like flames!
The small, yellow flowers and woolly appearance of kidney vetch make this plant easy to spot. Look for it growing low to the ground on sand dunes, chalk grasslands and cliffs in summer.