Throwing everything including the kitchen sink at wildlife gardening

The RSPB team which created, set up and ran the stand at this year's BBC Gardeners World Live have now sent me the photos to share with you all.

"Apologies for the delay," Claire wrote in her email. "We were in the NEC for 13 hours on the last day setting it up and we were all a bit delirious!" Anyone who has been involved with setting up something like this will know how they feel!

The team had taken the theme of 'Giving nature a home' quite literally, and created what I'm going to call a 'fusion' of nature-friendly gardening and household objects. Note that a kitchen sink did indeed make an appearance, brimming over with plants, in the first photo.

I do like the wardrobe kitted out as a solitary bee hotel. You'll be pleased to know that all the 'kit' was recycled, much of it thanks to donations from RSPB staff at The Lodge.

But perhaps my favourite photo to come through is below. One member of staff clearly no longer has a bathroom!

I've been blogging about my garden boudoir which is just an upturned dustbin lid - this surely takes it one step further! It is great to see a bath being used as a pond rather than ending up on landfill. And note the wooden ramp to allow creatures to get out that might have fallen in. This would look lovely sunken into a garden. Has anyone out there tried it? I'd be really interested to know how you got on.

I'm told that thousands of people visited the stand and took great interest in all the features and ideas, and hopefully went home inspired to give nature a home.