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<\/a>We love listening to buzzing bees, watching the birds flit around the air, inhaling the aroma of roses and monitoring the snuffling of hedgehogs. You don\u2019t have to live in the country or go out to national parks to realise that wildlife is important to us. Even urban areas benefit from a range of plants, birds, insects and animals.<\/p>\nBut the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. So, what can you do to help wildlife recover at your home, neighbourhood or business?<\/p>\n
The new Plant For Our Planet campaign encourages to plant trees and flowers in order to help tackle biodiversity loss with nature-based solutions.<\/p>\n
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Plant For Our Planet<\/u><\/p>\n
The campaign, launched by the UK government, is backed by The Wildlife Trusts, Woodland Trust, National Trust, Horticultural Trades Association and Royal Horticultural Society.<\/p>\n
It asks individuals and communities to support nature in planting flowers and trees \u2013 this obviously helps bees, birds and insects, but will also help to restore community spaces and even remove carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
What can you do? Anything \u2013 it doesn\u2019t have to be massive, even potting a plant will help. But you could also tackle your garden, plant a tree, create an insect hotel or grow a vegetable patch. Every little helps, especially if it helps pollinators.<\/p>\n
These are good plants for the garden \/ balcony \/ office outdoor area for encouraging bees and butterflies (plus they\u2019ll look and maybe even smell lovely!):<\/p>\n
– Spring \u2013 primrose, garlic mustard, sweet rocket, aubretia, honesty
\n– Summer \u2013 buddleia, honeysuckle, lavender, red valerian, hebe
\n– Autumn \u2013 ivy, hissop, ice plant, sweet scabious, michaelmass daisy<\/p>\n
You can get plants or trees from your local garden centre or check out the online shops of the Wildlife Trusts or the Woodland Trust.<\/p>\n
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Plant at Work<\/u><\/p>\n
Encourage your staff to get planting. Organise a session at work \u2013 plant some lovely plants, maybe even a tree \u2013 to rejuvenate your tired outdoors areas.<\/p>\n
Hang bird feeders near office windows \u2013 it\u2019s so lovely to look up from the computer screen and see blue tits and robins feeding just outside. Give staff simple bird ID charts \u2013 see who can see the most!<\/p>\n
Share info with colleagues about what they can do at home or in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
One of my clients has had bird feeders around their site for quite some time \u2013 their staff love sitting outside (when it\u2019s sunny), enjoying watching & listening to the birds. They have now planted a wildflower meadow \u2013 it\u2019s the first thing you see when you arrive at the site gates: beautiful!<\/p>\n
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More info on the Plant for our Planet campaign is here<\/a>, including a toolkit and social media content.<\/p>\n I hope you enjoy your planting and the bee-utiful wildlife.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n _____________________<\/p>\n Liked this post?\u00a0Sign up for the Eshcon Newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n