{"id":128754,"date":"2022-08-20T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/young-country-diary-i-love-my-wildlife-garden-we-built-it-from-scratch-liam\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T10:10:05","slug":"young-country-diary-i-love-my-wildlife-garden-we-built-it-from-scratch-liam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/young-country-diary-i-love-my-wildlife-garden-we-built-it-from-scratch-liam\/","title":{"rendered":"Young country diary: I love my wildlife garden \u2013 we built it from scratch | Liam"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAyrshire, Scotland: The flowers are in bloom and the pond has produced loads of frogs \u2013 and there\u2019s a hedgehog house ready and waitingI\u2019ve made my own wildlife garden. A few years ago my big brother Joey brought a book home from school about how to make a wildlife garden, so I pestered my mum about it. We started to collect wildflower seeds and lots of people helped out or gave us plants \u2013 our neighbours, my friends at school, my dad. My grandad built the big wooden sleepers that make the edge of the garden.Now it has everything it says that you need in the book \u2013 a deep pond, wildflowers, a log pile, bird feeders, a place for solitary bees and a hedgehog house. It has been very busy recently. There are frogs, pond skaters and water boatmen too. None of the frogs have used the frog ramp yet! My blackcurrant bushes are loaded with fruit. My mum and nana turned half of the blackcurrants into yummy jam, and I left the other half for the birds to enjoy. Lots of flowers have bloomed, like sneezewort, oxeye daisies, marigolds and nasturtiums, and we have some that we didn\u2019t even plant! I\u2019ve grown a wee apple tree from a pip (from the very first apple I ever ate). It\u2019s growing plenty of apples, but they won\u2019t be ready until later in the year. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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