Build a small pond and attract frogs.

Frogs are great in controlling the number of snails and slugs which are the nightmare of most gardeners, however, a much more eco-friendly alternative to throwing down harmful slug pellets is to naturally encourage frogs and other more natural predators of slugs back into your garden.

Even a simple container pond can be a simple plastic bowl filled with some rain water and a few pond plants like bog bean, yellow flag-iris and marsh marigold will attract frogs and newts to your garden. You will, of course, need to add a little plank of wood for the frogs to use as a ramp as an entry and exit to the container.

Hedgehogs

Not many people may know this but the numbers of hedgehogs is down dramatically and that’s right across the country. If you leave a corner in your garden a little overgrown and less tidy it will provide the perfect place for hedgehogs wanting to hibernate.

Butterflies

Keep butterflies visiting your garden by providing the most popular of British classics such as forget me knots, ivy and daisies.

Bumble Bees

Keep your garden bumble bee friendly in planting the wildflowers which they love like e.g. knapweed and foxglove, the UK’s bumble bee population is diminishing and this will help hugely with pollination.