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Town and City Gardens arrow Wildlife Container Ideas
Wildlife Container Ideas
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Our 2006 campaign is to bring a vast variety of wildlife, such as birds, bees, hedgehogs, Butterflys and much more to the garden.

For Town and City gardeners this can be yet another challenge, but you too can get involved. As always you do not have to have a large garden in order to be able to plant to encourage wildlife. Wildflowers can be grown in pots and containers and positioned in the garden to encourage wildlife to visit and thrive. Have a look at our container page to get some ideas for suitable plants and pots for planting. Below we have a few ideas for wildlife containers which you might like to try.

The wildlife containers feature many plants which are excellent for encouraging wildlife into your Town Garden. In order to have months of wildlife interest the wildlife containers are designed to give interest, fragrance and colour from March through to September.

B=bulb T=trailing plant P=perennial (will re-grow each year) A=annual (have to grow from seed each year)H=Kitchen herb E=evening nectar plant

Spring Wildlife Container
Summer Wildlife Container
Late Summer Wildlife Container
These spring-flowering plants provide an important source of nectar for the insects that fly early in the year.
  • Aubretia P, T.
  • Crocus , B, P.
  • Grape Hyacinth [ Muscari botryoides ] B, P.
  • (Plant spring-flowering bulbs in the container in the autumn ready for next year, or buy pots of ready-sprouted bulbs from the garden centre in the spring).
  • Lungwort [ Pulmonaria ]P.
  • Primrose [ Primula vulgaris ]P.
  • Wall flower [ Erysimum ]A.
  • Yellow alyssum [ Alyssum saxatilis ]P.

Poached egg plant [ Limnanthes douglasii ]A.(early summer)

  • Verbena A.
  • Wallflower [ Erysimum cheiri ]A.(early summer)
  • French marigold(single) [ Tagetes patula ]A.
  • Heather [ Calluna vulgaris ]P.
  • Cornflower [ Centaurea cyanus ]A.
  • Sweet William [ Dianthus barbatus ]B.
  • Thyme [ Thymus ]P.T. H.
  • Wild marjoram [ Origanum vulgare ]P. H.
  • Night scented stock A. E.
  • Tobacco plant [ Nicotiana ]A. E.
These plants will provide a late feed of nectar for over-wintering butterflies, bees and moths -a vital source of energy to keep their bodies ticking over slowly during hibernation.
  • Heather [ Calluna vulgaris ]P.
  • French marigold(single) [ Tagetes patula ]A.
  • Ice plant [ Sedum spectabile ]P.
  • Ivy [ Hedera helix ]P.
  • Michaelmas daisies [ Aster nova-belgii ]P.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source :http://www.davidbellamyconservation.org.uk/