I Asked Wildlife Experts How You Can Make Your Garden a Refuge for Birds, Bees, Frogs, and Insects This Winter – 5 Things They Recommended to Do This Month

A songthrush eating red berries on a shrub in the winter.

As the gardening calendar ticks around into late fall, we see winter on the horizon, and many thoughts go to tidying up plants and putting the garden to bed. However, if we think winter is tough for us, spare a thought for wildlife that are desperately searching for food and shelter at this lean time of year.

Thankfully, gardeners can do many things to help all kinds of wildlife during the winter months. And it is not difficult things, it can be simple measures like not cutting back plants and making leaf or log piles towards the back of our borders. These elementary moves might not seem much, but they make a big difference.