Award-Winning Garden Ninja, Lee Burkhill, shows you how to design a wildlife garden. In this episode, Garden Ninja shows a closer look at shrubs for a wildlife garden to encourage a whole host of birds, insects and creatures to the garden space. He also shows how to layout paths and spacing in your garden to make the most out of it no matter what size!
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Presented by Garden Ninja, Manchesters Garden Designer and blogger Lee Burkhill. He’s an RHS Award-winning Chelsea garden designer and expert panellist on BBC Radio Manchester’s Saturday morning garden phone in.
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16 Comments
This will be fantastic in the long run. Can`t wait(although i must) to see it Lee! I do have a cheeky question though..ive been given a Ribes Sanguineum Edward VII, can i grow this in a large pot for something long term? Not really any space in the borders to do it justice.
Can't wait to see the results of your hard work. I particularly enjoy your instructional tips as I am relatively new to gardening despite being of ripe age! Currently struggling with a small, but completely shaded area,,,, any tips? Would love an episode on that subject. Keep smiling,
So many options. You could get it all done within a year or two at one extreme, at the other see it as a long term project developed and modified over the years as parts mature and further ideas develop.
Please share the progress of this garden. I can’t wait to see it grow.
Excellent video Lee, it'll be fantastic to follow the progress of the garden over time.
Wow. This is gonna look amazing. I thought my lawn was big. This is exactly what I need to do. Save a lot of grass cutting lol
Hello. Love your videos. I live in Cornwall. I’ve just made some borders around my lawn. The soil is full of stones. I’m sifting the stones out from the soil before I plant it out. How deep should I clean out the soil? I’m currently digging down about 15cm. Any advice would be gratefully received. Thank you. Joseph
Hey Ninja, wondering if you can offer me some advice? I'm fairly new to gardening and I'm attempting to reseed an existing lawn, I have removed most of the thatch with a rake (thanks to one of your previous videos) and now I'm attempting to scarify, hard work especially since the soil is full of clay (I'm in Newcastle under Lyme near Stoke), my grass is very yellow in parts and almost if not fully dead, I've been adding Miracle Gro Lawn Food in an attempt to revive it before patching up with fresh seed, would that help or do you recommend just ripping it all up and sowing fresh seed? I was hoping to just patch up but I'm not sure if it can work at this stage (mostly yellow grass) thanks!
hi lee nice small dog aswell i have a little jack russell aswell great company dogs are for sure
Hi Lee, love the video. I want to create a wildlife area in my very sunny front garden which is about 4sq m.I want to keep a bit of lawn and add a border. I have 3 Buddleias in pots atm( Sungold,Moonlight and Royal Red). Would you recommend just one of them to go in the border? Think more than one would dominate the small area.
I would love to have further information on plants/flowers for this type of small garden please. Thanks
Morning, You are the best breakfast T V . What a fantastic video showing us from right at the beginning a new garden. Fabulous. Im a gardener and Garden Designer, I work quite a lot and feel like I have a new pal 😃
Bit late asking, but I'm also creating a a project similar to yours but not to such a grand scale in lawn. My question is in relation to Alliums, I'm going to throw lots of drumstick alliums in, with hollandicum type, is this a good idea for early drama before the wildflowers come into their own in the summer?
The greatest design I 've ever seen! It looks like the garden of my dreams.
Hi Lee, I am looking for wild plants for a small garden that will grow on heavy clay and survive the wet winter conditions.
Hi Lee,
Thanks for all these videos amazing videos! Love them! I need some advice on what to plant in a wildlife area of the garden that's will be bare earth this autumn. We're getting approx 15m by 8m scrapped and leveled. Bottom half will be an allotment. (Shed, polytunnel, raised beds) 2nd half Approx 8m X 8m will be re-wilded. I'm planting fruit trees on one side (apple/pear/plum/cherry). I wanted a wildflower meadow around them. Question is – Should I just put a random seed mix down in autumn? Or select specific plants/seeds? what seeds can I sow directly in autumn? The other side is a bed (8m by 3m) running into a pond. Any advice on wildlife friendly pond plants? We have some old tree stumps to arrange too. I'm completely struggling with what shrubs and perennial wildflowers to plant? Possibly even a small tree? I've read bare root shrubs get planted in autumn, but is that the same for the wildflower plants? So much to learn! Thanks again, Michelle 😊