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Wildlife Gardening Essential Concepts
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Wildlife Gardening Essential Concepts

Introduction to wildlife friendly gardening in the UK
Created byJody Fairish
Last updated 8/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • The key principles of wildlife gardening
  • What is wildlife gardening and why it's important
  • Garden food chains
  • Apply the wildlife gardening course content to your own garden, ie, where to start.
  • Basic concepts of wildlife friendly gardening.
  • The life cycle of the European Robin
  • The life cycle of the Peacock Butterfly
  • The life cycle of the Red Mason Bee (Solitary Bee)
  • The life cycle of the Hedgehog
  • The life cycles of Aphids, Ladybird and Garden Spider
  • How to increase the biodiversity of a garden

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 38m total length

  • Introduction3:00
  • Who am I?1:05
  • What is Wildlife Gardening?2:48
  • The Robin8:33
  • The Robin
  • Why Garden For Wildlife?6:33
  • The Peacock Butterfly8:01
  • The Peacock Butterfly
  • Key Principles of Wildlife Gardening17:01
  • Key Principles of Wildlife Gardening
  • The Red Mason Bee5:29
  • Red Mason Bee
  • Food Chains8:23
  • Food Chains
  • Aphids, Ladybirds & Garden Spider8:28
  • Aphids, Ladybirds and Garden Spiders
  • Toxins in the food chain3:14
  • Detritivores3:43
  • The Hedgehog6:26
  • The Hedgehog
  • Where to Start on Your Garden?5:25
  • Wildlife Garden Design Planning7:49
  • Conclusion2:39

Requirements

  • This course is for anyone wanting to learn the foundations of wildlife gardening.
  • This is NOT a course teaching general gardening skills.
  • This is a UK focused course. Not everything taught will be relevant to USA or parts of EU.
  • Basic gardening knowledge will be useful, but not essential.
  • You do not need to own a garden.

Description

This is an introductory course to wildlife gardening in the UK, covering the basic framework and essential concepts that go towards making a garden, wildlife friendly.

This course explains:

- Key principles of wildlife gardening. These are the most important aspects that every wildlife friendly garden should aim to incorporate. Because these are so important, this course explains each one in turn, with images to help convey ways to achieve them in your own garden.

- Garden food chains. These are a fascinating and important aspect of wildlife gardening. This course explains what they are, and why it's good for a wildlife gardener to know them. Understanding that, what you plant and the animals your garden attracts, your garden will send out invitations to other wildlife.

- Life-cycles of some common garden wildlife. Peppered throughout this course, I will take a deeper look at certain species that are common in the UK, to get an understanding of their life-cycles, what their needs are and most importantly, what gardeners can do to help them thrive in their garden.

- Explanation of what wildlife gardening is, with a working example from my own garden. Wildlife gardening is a term that's often used, but what exactly is it? Isn't every garden that has plants, wildlife friendly? This course will clarify what is meant by wildlife gardening.

- Why we should consider gardening with wildlife in mind. Many gardeners are at odds with wildlife, especially insects and plant eating animals. This course outlines the benefits and good reasons to not just tolerate wildlife in gardens, but see the joy in supporting our incredible garden wildlife.

- This course does NOT cover standard gardening advice, only concepts and the framework behind wildlife gardening. Only topics that are specifically related to wildlife gardening are covered in this course. There is no mention of how to prune, or how to plant something. This course is about the concepts and principles that go behind a wildlife friendly garden, so it doesn't require you to have any prior knowledge of gardening either.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested to learn gardening in a wildlife friendly way.
  • Those looking to see more birds, butterflies, bees and other wildlife in their garden.
  • Anyone wanting to know more about the wildlife that visits their garden.
  • Gardeners in UK.
  • Anyone with an interest in Plants and Animals.

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