{"id":419,"date":"2015-12-08T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ambius.co.uk\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:42:32","slug":"wildlife-gardening-let-it-all-hang-out-on-your-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambius.co.uk\/blog\/wildlife-gardening-let-it-all-hang-out-on-your-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife gardening: let it all hang out on your grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are insects in your flower patch, rabbits burrowing around your bushes and birds pecking hungrily at the grass. And it\u2019s all the sign of a well-maintained garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least, it\u2019s the sign of a garden maintained in a highly specific way. It\u2019s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/gardening\/gardens-to-visit\/keep-gardens-messy-to-attract-wildlife\/\">wildlife gardening<\/a> \u2013 and it could add some extra panache to your grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildlife gardening is essentially the horticultural equivalent of letting it all hang out, every overgrown bush and hastily cut patch of grass, resulting in a greater number of creatures and creepy crawlies congregating in your grass, bushes and flowerbeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ambius.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1127300973.jpg\" alt=\"Wildlife Garden\" class=\"wp-image-1950\" style=\"width:321px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ambius.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1127300973.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.ambius.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1127300973-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Studying your plant life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to national newspaper The Telegraph, one of the first self-proclaimed wildlife gardeners was Jennifer Owen, who documented her 30-year project to study the wildlife in her garden in a book entitled Wildlife of a Garden: A Thirty-Year Study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen started recording the various wildlife in her garden in 1972, at a point when most people didn\u2019t think about the creatures in private residences\u2019 gardens. 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