greencube garden and landscape design, UK

Harriet and I have worked this year on some interesting projects including this one.  Three small terraced gardens to help promote how we can make a difference and encourage and embrace wildlife. Hopefully gaining interest from developers, large and small to stop installing the 1.8 metre high fences with concrete gravel boards and rectangular indian sandstone paving. Here's what you could do on a postage stamp of 5m x 3.3m garden on a low budget. The three gardens include: 1. bug hotel 2. shallow dish for birds, hedgehogs and others to drink and bathe 3. nectar rich planting for bees and butterflies 4. tunnelled homes for hedgehog hibernation 5. soft boundaries to allow wildlife to move through easily 6. native hedging 7. decaying wood to encourage beetles and other insects in greencube contact greencubed.co.uk/contact/contact.html

So here it is my treasured sparrow flats, this has got to be the most original and unique christmas present I have ever received, now proudly positioned on the north/westerly wall of our house. My triangular designed sparrow flats ( great tit's also welcome) , with 10 nesting boxes integrated within, you could call it the sparrow hotel. I'm waiting with anticipation for the birds to move right on in. All colour co-ordinated to tie in with our windows and doors. HOW SPECTACULAR. A big thank you to DAD Buckland (my father-in-law) who lovingly built this for me with great attention to detail and execution of my original brief. ha ha. It was delivered along with a tawny owl nesting box which has been positioned in our oak tree, we often hear the Tawny owl calling and we are hoping it likes its new home! So along with the nectar rich meadow that we carefully sowed last spring and was full of bees and butterflies this summer and my bug hotel wall, Our meadow this summe...