Garden Answers 01.2022

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VIEW

New columnist Rupert Paul outlines his ambition
to create a sustainable wildlife garden

This is a new column about my Prestwood Nature of 135 gardeners in two
Northamptonshire village garden, villages showed that these people’s small,
and I’ll be sharing how it develops personal decisions, when taken together, had
over the next 12 months. pretty much propped up the local populations

It’s an old garden, attached to a stone of reptiles, amphibians and dragonflies,

cottage built in 1880. Before that it was whose original habitat had largely been

probably pasture for maybe centuries. But to destroyed by the modern world.

me (because it’s my garden) it’s still quite This story of disappearing habitat is so

new: I only moved in two familiar, but it’s still tragic.

years ago. The latest State of Nature

Normally, when you Report in 2019 showed that

● Rupert Paul is a start afresh, you work out I’m going to see what 13% of British species are at
what you can do with the my garden can do to risk of extinction, and it is
former editor of Garden space you have. Your address, in its own almost certain to get worse.
Answers and Natural fences and walls aren’t just small way, the nature We are also living in a time of
World. He has been an physical boundaries, but and climate crisis terrifying climate extremes.
environmental journalist mental ones too. But this So in the coming year I’m
for 20 years time I want to think about going to see what my garden
my garden differently – as can do to address, in its own

a unit of land connected to very small way, the nature

the rest of the village, and and climate crisis, while also,

beyond. The reason is that of course, providing me with

it’s going to be a wildlife garden, and if I want food, beauty and colour!

it to succeed then I need to learn about what Let’s start with the basics: the garden is

plants, animals and habitats I’m surrounded about 15 paces wide and 55 long, running

by – or not! This is not just common sense; east-west and shrinking to about five

research tells us the same thing. Fo ide alongside the house.

example, in 2009 a study by so a piece of land with a

ok and mature lime

ees at one end, and a

eglected meadow with

crub and mature ash

rees at the other. In

etween, it’s joined up to

veryone else’s gardens.

oming a bit higher in our

ginary helicopter, there’s

n bigger picture. The

ribbon of houses either

side of a heavily polluted brook, with loads

of mature trees. There’s grazed grassland

behind the houses down one side of the village,

and neglected grassland on the other. Dotted

around are a few ponds, which are busy

turning into wet hollows. At the top end of the

village is a rather battered woodland that

obviously goes back several hundred years.

PHOTOS: RUPERT PAUL For the other three sides, it’s intensive arable

farmland. So there’s a fair bit of good stuff

around, even if the general picture suggests

decline. So what are the best things to do in

Turn a garage wall into habitat. Inset: Rupe’s greenhouse my patch, to restore nature and soak up
carbon? I’ll run though my ideas next time. ✿

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