Garden Developments

WildlifeKate Blog

Diary entries documenting my wildlife projects, ideas and encounters....

A tour of my Patch…. May 2018

My garden always starts to explode with foliage around this time of the year and I love it! I can’t believe how much it has changed in...

Autumnal tidy up….

The garden is in that period where it is starting to look rather messy… but I don’t like to do too much tidying up as it is important to...

#30DaysWild – Day 5 When a plan comes together…..

Some months ago now, having cleared and prepared a new part of my garden for development, I started to plant it very much with insects in...

May in the WildlifeKate Patch….

I have been working hard in the garden for the last few months, especially on the redevelopment of an area beyond my patio. For over 12...

Patio Garden Easter Developments

Just over a year ago an area of my garden, where I had been using to keep my two pygmy goats, became ‘available’ for development after...

Bullfinches & Goldcrests; A Gorgeous Day in my Patch

What a truly stunning Bank Holiday it has been today! Warm sunshine and clear blue skies have meant I have cracked on and got loads of...

Wildlife Activity… too much footage to cope with!!

I love filming and recording and documenting what is happening in my garden, but it does sometimes mean that I have so much footage, I...

A Busy Week, Sunshine and Garden Growth

This week has been a very busy one, with 3 days spent filming for a project that I cannot tell you much about I am afraid! All I can say...

WildlifeKate Open Garden for Staffs Wildlife Group

A month or so ago, I did a talk for Staff Wildlife Trust, Lichfield Group. They had also asked me if I would consider showing the members...

‘Project B&B’ …. a Wild Garden and Nesting Update!

With the weather so beautiful in the first week of my Easter break, I have been trying to cram as many hours in the garden as possible as...

A busy weekend of garden developments

You may recall, if you follow my blog, that I am developing a big are of my garden this year to attempt to increase biodiversity. I am...

Is Spring around the corner?

After a wonderful week away in the Cairngorms last week, it was back to work, but great to begin to watch the garden and the wildlife...

Evolution of a Garden

When I moved into this house some 17 years ago, the garden was waist-height overgrown and it was only on the second viewing I actually...