Remember our first steps on how to get a Wildlife area in the garden? Wehave improved it! Check this out! The obvious changes are the wood on the walls that will allow plants to "climb" all over and provide a home for insects, the blue thing is a pond that will be a home for insects as well and as a water source for bees :) The changes you can't see (yet) are the new seeds planted there: Wild Marjoram, Field Poppy, Oxeye Daisy, Red Champion, Selfheal, Wild Carrot, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Cornflower and Wild Red Clover. David chose Snowdrops, Puschkinia libanotica, Iris reticulata and Fritillaria meleagris (David loves to learn the latin names of the plants) because the are the first ones to bloom in spring or late winter. He promised the Snowdrops will bloom in January, so I'm going to wait for that!
On the left, the new pond for the wildlife area, you can also see the wood on the walls.
David got the seeds through The Friends of the Earth and their campaign called "The Bee Cause", if anyone would like to get some seeds, check their website: www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do
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