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I just thought i would let every one know that even with a small garden the visitors that came to our garden last year was amazing. Only last year we diecided to put in a long cottage style flower bed, along with a small pond and water feature.
In one summer the flowers and choice of flowers brought in lots of insect visitors especially bees, lady birds, dragon flys and many others. But it was the larger visitors that surprised me, in one summer we have two resident frogs, a hedge hog who is now hibernating under the fox gloves, a fox and many different birds.
Because we have a few fir and pine trees backing onto our garden the variety of birds has been quite amazing, even had a bird of prey land on top of the fence after an unsuccessful attack on a starling that was poking about on the lawn.
As for house sparrows i think i have a whole community using our garden, who greedily stuff themselve on the feeders i have put around the garden.
I am truly looking forward to this year and what it brings, i will be adding some reeds to the pond and adding a small bog area to see what that might encourage.
Hi red-rooster,you said it.Hopefully, your post will be a great encouragement for those that do have small gardens.
We had a large garden,front,back and side which was mature and extremely busy with wild-life then downsized to our bungalow with a small garden and we also designed it so it could be easy to maintain and keep attractive.We have so many visitors too and are absolutely thrilled.We are semi rural and back onto fields so it is fantastic.We also get bats coming throughout summer which is fab. Small can bring in everything a large garden can including birds of prey as you have mentioned.
Thankyou for sharing your garden with us.:0) and hope to read much more from you.
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