From the Archives: Planting for Wildlife

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Peter Gibbs guides us through the GQT archive, which includes some much needed advice on how to make your garden more wildlife friendly.

The GQT team have pruned through 77 years of questions and answers to reveal useful advice provided by our various horticultural experts. This includes tips on how to attract bats to the garden, advice on rabbit proof plants and the benefits of snakes in the garden

Later, we listen back to when Kirsty Wilson visited Glenarm Castle and discussed how we make our gardens to safe for hedgehogs.

Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:45.6	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4. So grab those
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0:56.4	next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
1:02.7	Marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson once wrote, in nature, nothing exists alone.
1:10.1	Something which us gardeners know all too well. While we might not delight in a cabbage leaf being accompanied by munching caterpillars, we will enjoy the sight of the resulting butterflies sipping nectar from our blooms. The fauna of our world has an important, intricate relationship with the flora that we love.
1:29.8	And while wildlife can both hinder and help us in our gardening schemes,
1:34.2	increasingly gardeners are seeing planting for wildlife as an exciting creative challenge
1:39.2	and one that we are eager to help you embrace today.
1:43.2	With clips from our extensive gardeners question
1:45.6	time archive, we'll be exploring how to turn your green space into the ultimate all-you-can-eat
1:51.3	buffet for pollinators, keep those pheasants at bay and give your local bat colony a five-star
1:57.5	leafy retreat to hang about in. The secret to a thriving garden might just be a case of tuning in to the call of the wild.
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