Grow a secret garden for butterflies!
The Wildlife Trusts and RHS urge gardeners to help butterflies and moths for this year’s Wild About Gardens campaign
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Beautiful Butterflies Family Workshop
An afternoon workshop with crafts and activities. Learn more about the beautiful butterflies which share our gardens and parks.
Wild Whisby Summer: Butterflies
A morning workshop with crafts and activities. Learn more about the beautiful butterflies which share our gardens and parks.
Where to see butterflies
Summer is a great time to go butterfly hunting, and some of the best grassland sites to spot them are on our nature reserves. Find your nearest reserve for butterfly spotting and find out what to look out for.
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Wildlife gardening
Make space for nature in your garden with our expert wildlife gardening advice, and discover simple actions you can do to encourage wildlife to visit.
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Wildlife Gardening with NCS
Updates from NCS on the wildlife garden at Whisby Nature Park.
Wildlife Gardening with NCS
Young people from the National Citizen Service join us at Whisby Nature Park to help with the wildlife garden.
Climate friendly gardening
There are plenty of ways you can take action against climate change in your own backyard or local greenspace.
Chemical-free organic gardening
Go chemical-free in your garden to help wildlife! Here's how to prevent slugs and insects from eating your plants with wildlife-friendly methods.
Small white
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.