Wildlife gets set to come indoors at Gardeners World Live

Although the BBC will turn their attention to Chelsea next week (the Flower Show, not the football team) in a blaze of publicity and celebrities, our hard-working Events Team of staff and volunteers have been at it again in their secret bunker in Bedfordshire, pulling together their feature garden ready for Gardeners World Live.

This annual giant of a show is at the NEC, Birmingham, from 11-14 June, and I know many of you like to pop in to say hello and have a chat on the RSPB stand, so here is a little taster of what April and the team have been preparing.

Now I have to explain here that the team likes to tantalise me so I'm only fed snippets of what they're up to. I'm told that this year's garden, which is always one of the largest in the indoor arena, will feature everything including the kitchen sink. Literally!

Yes, apparently it takes the idea of giving nature a home and applies it to a house...

...with a wardrobe bug hotel (ah, so that explains the photo below) and bath-tub pond dipping,

There will be lots of recyclables in a kitchen (which I think is what is coming together in the next photo, but you can make up your own mind!). And I'm promised there will be plants galore.

Gardeners World Live presents us with a great opportunity for getting out that message to a large audience that everyone can do something to give nature a home. Hopefully, by putting in this effort each year in such creative ways, more and more people will feel inspired to give nature a home.

If you've never been, Gardeners World Live is a great day out, packed with inspiration, plant shopping and, as we've now seen, something you've probably never seen before courtesy of the RSPB!