Thousands of insects and animals live in every garden. Below you can read a number of tips to protect these insects in your garden.
- Trees and shrubs with a dense branch structure are good hiding places for birds and hedgehogs. By leaving a corner in your garden a bit messy, with leaf and branch material, you also provide good hiding places.
- The longer you have flowering plants, the longer insects such as butterflies and bees will find food in your garden.
- Leave plants that have finished flowering in the winter: they still contain seeds that are food for birds, and the birds can use the plants as nesting material in the following spring. Insects use seed stalks as a place to hibernate.
- Animals need water. You are already doing them a favor with a water bowl in the garden. Do you have more space? Then a natural garden pond is an option.
- Fences are often an impassable obstacle for animals such as hedgehogs. A natural hedge is an environmentally and animal-friendly alternative.
