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edition. The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album
Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the
website www.songsofthegarden.com
Design Elements
with Louise McDaid
So you’ve cut out spraying with
chemicals, you’re growing bird friendly plants, but what else can you do to
make sure your garden is a haven for all sorts of wildlife? Let’s find out…
The key points were to seek out
local plants and incorporate them into your garden somewhere.
Louise also mentioned that sometimes
the local plants don’t always have great flowers, but you put them in with
other natives or even exotics and build up a plant base that encourages
biodiversity.
That way, you’re attracting good
bugs, birds and reptiles into your garden that do some of the hard work in the
garden for you.
Can’t have enough of those good bugs
I say.
There’s a new product out, by the
way, that’s not only a horticultural oil, but contains a good bug attractant
which the company calls HIPPO.
Look out for it next time you go
shopping if you have a pest outbreak.
It’s good because it’s organic.