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Bees
Bees and other pollinating insects are crucially important to the garden. Here is a selection of sustainably produced and expertly designed products for bees in your garden
Natural habitats for solitary bees to build nests in are becoming harder to find in modern gardens. The addition of a solitary bee house or hotel can attract bees to your garden to nest and return year after year.
The ideal site to place your solitary bee house is well above the ground in a warm, south-facing position, ideally, near plenty of nectar-rich flowers, plants and trees.
To attract solitary bees to your garden, you should include flowering plants to provide nectar and pollen. My range of wildflower seeds is ideal for attracting and sustaining pollinating bees
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Butterflies
Both butterflies and moths are in trouble in Ireland and across Europe. Numbers have fallen due to habitat and biodiversity loss in the countryside.
Conserving butterflies and moths are of great importance for reasons that include their intrinsic and aesthetic value and their use in education and ecology.
An area rich in butterflies and moths is a good indicator of a healthy environment and ecosystem.
Apart from looking, just beautiful, butterflies and moths have a significant part to play in the food chain. At the various stages of their fascinating life-cycle, they support a whole range of birds, bats and other insectivorous animals.
Telling the difference between butterflies and moths can be difficult and, in truth, there isn’t much of a difference as both belong to the Lepidoptera group, of which there are 60 species of butterfly and over 2,500 recorded moths.
We can help butterflies and moths as they will visit any garden, however small. If they can feed on suitable nectar plants and have shelters, a well-thought-out garden can attract many moth and butterflies.
My selection of wildflower seeds will help to attract and feed butterflies and moths in your garden
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Edible Plants
Growing your own fruit and veg is not difficult but it does require a time commitment.
If you only have a concrete slab or a balcony as a garden, then you can still grow some of your own food.
Many types of edible plants, herbs, fruit and veg can be grown in pots and planters.
You will be amazed at how much produce and how many plants you can get from a packet of vegetable seeds. With only a bit of effort – and a helping of manure – you will be feeding all your friends with the freshest of veg in no time.
I am offering a small range of edible plants here on my webstore but this will be (pardon the pun) ever growing.
Make sure that when growing your own fruit and veg you only use organic products.
If you need something to control pests and diseases later in the year, then use organic pesticides and fungicides or maybe try a Biological control.
Biological controls are insects, normally microscopic, that are introduced to control pests affecting the crops
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Expert Garden Design Services
Expert Garden Design Services – Tailored to Your Space
A well-designed garden is more than just a collection of plants—it’s a space that enhances your home, supports biodiversity, and thrives in harmony with its surroundings. Whether you’re starting from scratch or refining an existing layout, my expert garden design services will help you create a space that is both beautiful and functional.
Using my decades of experience in horticulture and landscape design, I offer bespoke garden design solutions to suit every need. My Eircode Garden Design service provides a personalised, expertly crafted garden plan based on your location and conditions, while my Online Garden Consultation gives you direct, one-on-one expert advice, no matter where you are in Ireland.
For those looking for a more detailed, immersive experience, I also offer a range of additional design options, from hand-drawn sketches to full VR walkthroughs, allowing you to visualise your dream garden before implementation.
Whether you want to attract pollinators, create a low-maintenance retreat, or design a structured, formal garden, I will work with you to ensure your garden is both practical and inspiring.
Bespoke Plans | Expert Advice | Designed for You
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Fandango Fire Tools
The Kindling Cracker: A Revolutionary Invention
The Kindling Cracker is an innovative firewood splitter that has transformed the task of chopping wood, making it safer and easier for everyone, regardless of age. Here are some key points about this remarkable invention:
Material and Design:
- Made from Recycled Products: The Kindling Cracker is crafted from cast iron, ensuring both durability and environmental sustainability.
- Safety and Ease of Use: Its unique design eliminates the need for swinging an axe, significantly reducing the risk of injury. The device makes splitting wood accessible and safe for users of all ages.
Inventor's Story:
- Young Innovator: Ayla, a 13-year-old girl from New Zealand, invented the Kindling Cracker after her mother injured her fingers using an axe. Ayla ingeniously turned the axe upside down to create a safe firewood splitter.
- Historical Significance: It's remarkable that it took almost 5,000 years for a young girl from New Zealand to come up with an alternative to the traditional axe.
Recognition and Impact:
- Patented Success: Ayla's Kindling Cracker is now patented in multiple countries, including Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan.
- Award-Winning: The invention has received numerous accolades and is celebrated as a success story.
- Postal Tribute: In 2018, the New Zealand Postal Service issued a stamp to honor Ayla and her ingenious invention.
Felco Secateurs
Felco Secateurs, their tagline says it all Swiss Percision – Made to Last
Felco Secateurs are, quite simply the finest pruning tools out there. They are the best that I have ever used and I have been using Felco Secateurs now for over 30 years.
I am delighted to be able to offer a range of Felco secateurs for sale on my website.
FELCO's aim is to offer innovative and durable pruning solutions.
Felco Secateurs are deigned to provide the best in terms of:
- Ergonomics: offering comfort, lightness and reduced effot in pruning.
- Replaceable components: precision and identical reproduction to ensure identical components are available
- Durable components: robust and long-lasting products, from the use of quality materials.
Aimed primarily at professionals, domestic gardeners too can benefit from the quality and excellence of these Swiss made secateurs.
Anyone who enjoys the satisfaction of a job well done must also have access to the best cutting and pruning tools.
FELCO has forever sought to produce very high quality tools by making use of precise procedures, with a single goal in mind: excellence.
FELCO tools are designed to work in harmony with nature. Pruning professionals, landscape gardeners and designers worldwide appreciate the clean, precise-cutting models because they guarantee the quick healing of the pruning wound.
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Frogs and Toads
Although frogs are commonplace in Ireland many other reptile and amphibian species, such as Smooth or Common Newts and Natterjack toads are rare in Ireland.
This loss is primarily due to massive losses of ponds, which has happened as farming practices changed and development replaced these vital survival sites for amphibians.
The diets of frogs and toads are relatively similar and both are welcome in garden as they eat slugs and snails.
Toads will also eat ants and travel further for their food whereas frogs will eat flying insects and beetles.
Their taste for garden pests makes them an ideal friend for gardeners. The saviour to the common frog and toad has been the increase in the number of garden ponds and toad houses providing alternatives to their lost wildlife habitats.
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Garden Essentials
A range of garden plant foods and remedies of my favourite garden care products
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Garden Wildlife Products
Transform your outdoor space into a haven for wildlife with our Garden Wildlife Products. Supporting biodiversity is essential for a healthy garden, and by providing food, shelter, and water sources, you can attract beneficial creatures such as birds, bees, butterflies, and hedgehogs.
Our collection includes:
- Bird Feeders & Bird Baths – Keep garden birds well-fed and hydrated year-round.
- Bee Hotels & Insect Houses – Provide a safe nesting space for pollinators essential for plant health.
- Wildflower Seeds – Grow nectar-rich flowers to support bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects.
- Hedgehog Houses & Feeding Stations – Help protect and sustain hedgehogs in your garden.
Encouraging wildlife not only enhances your garden’s natural beauty but also helps with organic pest control and plant pollination. All our products are eco-friendly, sustainable, and designed to promote a thriving garden ecosystem.
Browse our Garden Wildlife Products today and start creating a nature-friendly garden that benefits both wildlife and the environment.
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Gift Bucket Grow Sets
Beautifully elegant gift buckets containing all you need to create masses of colour in your garden.
Whether you want to grow your own food with the tomato or chili Gift Bucket Sets or you prefer the colour of Spring Bulbs or summer bedding these Gift Bucket Grow Sets contain all that you need and are very easy to grow.
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Grazers Pest Repellant Products
Helping Plants to Help Themselves!
Maintaining the Natural Balance in the Garden is essential for healthy plants and biodiversity. In short what this means is that, ensuring a wide range of species exist in our garden, prevents the unnatural build up of any one species.
Introducing a chemical to control one pest interferes with this "Natural Balance" as it will often damage the predators of the pest you are trying to control in the first instance.
The pest numbers will always increase far quicker than the predator populations.
Grazers pest repellant products are an intricate part in this jigsaw by ensuring that no pest or predator is killed, rather the plants become totally unpalatable to plant pests.
When applied to leaves and stems, the calcium-based, environmentally safe Grazers products work by creating a ‘plant-mediated effect’ that makes the plants unpalatable to the pests
The plant pests then seek other food sources instead and leave our plants to thrive, helped in their growth by the calcium nutrient in the products.
Therefore Grazers pest repellant products, benefit not only our plants, which in effect are ‘helped to help themselves’, but also predators of the plant pests, thereby keeping the natural wildlife food chain in place, enhancing the environment and helping the rich tapestry.
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Grow Gift Sets
Ideal as a gift or to grow yourself, these Grow Gift Sets are easy to grow and contain all you need to get started
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Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs are among our most familiar and easily recognisable wild animals.
They are an iconic feature of the Irish countryside, but their numbers are dwindling.
We all need to do our bit to help provide new habitats for our local hedgehogs that urbanisation and intensive farming have destroyed.
Hedgehogs will usually begin hibernation in November under an excellent thick hedge or log pile. With the loss of such vital natural habitat, it's up to us to provide an alternative in our gardens. The easiest and most successful way to do this is to use a hedgehog house.
Please put it in a safe, sheltered spot in your garden.
We are constantly improving our hedgehog houses through testing and working closely with the conservation organisations in the U.K and Europe.
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Living Green Walls
Living Green Walls – Transform Your Space with Nature
A Living Wall is more than just a stunning feature—it’s a way to bring nature into your home, garden, or workspace while improving air quality and biodiversity. Whether you’re looking to create a lush vertical garden or simply maximise planting in a compact space, the Plant Box Living Wall System offers a smart, sustainable solution.
Designed for easy installation and effortless maintenance, this modular system allows you to grow a vibrant wall of plants, flowers, or even herbs, making it perfect for urban gardens, patios, and indoor spaces. It’s not just about aesthetics—green walls provide insulation, reduce noise pollution, and support local pollinators, creating a healthier environment for both you and the planet.
Explore the Plant Box Living Wall System today and start growing upwards!
🌿 Space-Saving Design | Eco-Friendly | Easy to Maintain 🌿
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Living Walls
Made from 100% recycled plastic, PlantBox is a stackable living wall system which will enhance your outdoor space, however large or small.
Please Note: Prices Include Delivery and Delivery of the Plant Box will be during December
The revolutionary PlantBox modular vertical garden is a system that combines biology with technology to bring your walls to life and life to your walls!
PlantBox is a cleverly simple vertical garden, with a unique watering system that makes looking after plants really easy.
All the Troughs are 600mm (60cm) wide and 200mm (20cm) high and all link together easily
You can opt for the mini (3 troughs), a medium (5 troughs), or go large with 10 troughs to create a living wall to suit the size and shape of your project.
The PlantBox troughs are very easy to put together, lightweight and sturdy. You create your living wall by stacking them and, either stand on the ground, or get clever with a drill to attach to a wall.
No daily watering with PlantBox! Each planting trough has a 1.8 litre water reservoir. That’s enough for 1 or 2 weeks, depending on location, weather and how thirsty the plants are. The reservoir and wicking-felt means that plants take up water as they need it, so you don’t need to worry about over-watering either.
No more guesswork about when to water: a water level indicator on each trough of your PlantBox living wall means the plants will tell you when they’re thirsty.
You can get creative. The troughs have a good planting depth for a huge range of foliage plants, perennials, annual flowering plants, vegetables, herbs and salad crops.
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New Year Sale Items
Fantastic Savings on all Gardening Gift Items to start 2023
Only small numbers of any item left in stock so order now.
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Organic Slug Control
Slugs n Snails are our greatest pest in the garden, munching away happily on the fruits of all our hard work.
They can leave Hostas and other such perennials in ribbons and reduce a bed of freshly planted out seedlings to nothing overnight.
Many slug pellets on the market contain the active ingredient Methaldehyde and should not be used.
Methaldehyde pellets are banned in many European countries as they are highly toxic.
They do not just kill the slugs and snails but they are also lethal to their predators such as birds and hedgehogs.
Methaldehyde is also toxic to domestic pets and to us humans and I would seriously urge you not to use it.
Maintaining the natural balance is the secret to good gardens. A good Natural Balance will ensure a healthy population of predators and will ensure that no one species will gain an unnatural advantage in numbers.
I offer some organic and environmentally sound slug killers and slug control, barrier products.
By using products such as these you will be helping to restore and maintain the Natural Balance in your garden whilst at the same time ensuring that you have no slug and snail damage to your plants
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Organic Soy Wax Candles and Essential Oils
Alexandria Kelly of Tulla Lodge Farm in Co Laois is producing the most amazing range of Organic Soy Wax Candles and Essential Oils and I am delighted to be working with her on developing a range of fragrances unique to The Irish Gardener.
I have the first signature scent available now and you will see it in all the products listed and more to come.
These, candles and oils, all hand made and blended in Alexandria's home in Co Laois are all made form sustainably produced and organic ingredients so that you and your home benefit from all that the essential oils have to offer and none of the nasties that come with paraffin wax.
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Ornamental Gift Sets
Add a sense of days gone by with these really beautiful old style milk churn type planters and grow bucket Gift Sets containing all you need to create masses of colour in your garden.
Whether you want to grow Spring Bulbs or summer bedding these Milk Churn Gift Sets will not disappoint and your garden will be filled with colour and scent, containing all that you need and are very easy to grow.
Cut Flower and Butterfly garden gift sets also contain all you need to get started and are extremely popular gardening gifts
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Other Wildlife Products
Bats
Over recent decades European bats have suffered sharp population declines. Many species are insect feeding, so, the loss of habitat supporting invertebrates on the which they feed and use pesticides is a possible cause.
Bats also need safe roosting and hibernation sites which are at risk from building and development work.
Working with The Bat Conservation Trust, Wildlife World has designed strong wooden bat boxes that provide suitable roosting spaces for these fascinating mammals with incredible species names such as Pipistrelle, Natterer’s and Whiskered.
Bat boxes must have thick sides to insulate the container from excessive temperature variations and a narrow entrance hole to prevent predation. It would be best if you put bat boxes high up in your garden. Growing night-scented plants will help attract night-flying insects, which bats eat.
Worldwide there are more than 1000 species of bat. Many of these species help humans by eating insects which can damage crops. Fruit-eating species also provide pollination and seed dispersal to help with forest regeneration—another reason why we need to work towards successful bat conservation.
Squirrels
In Ireland, we have our native Red Squirrel and the introduced Grey Squirrel. Since the introduction of greys in the 19th century, the red has suffered severe decline.
Whether you are lucky enough to have the reds in your locality or enjoy seeing the acrobatic antics of the now widespread greys, Wildlife World has sturdily made squirrel feeders and nest boxes for you.
Feeding squirrels in your garden can be not only entertaining to watch but might convince them to leave your bird feeders alone by purchasing specially designed squirrel feeders and squirrel food.
By placing the feeders in an area of your garden away from bird traffic, feeders and nest boxes. As a result, you can maximise your chances of squirrels and birds co-existing in a happy, healthy garden.
It may take a while for squirrels to find the feeders. Placing some peanuts around the feeder will encourage them to use it. Once discovered, you remove any old food and top up regularly. Squirrels will love using them, and you will love watching them!
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Seed Potatoes
Don’t Get Left without Seed Potatoes in Spring!!
Be prepared for Spring 2024 and order your seed potatoes now, and have them delivered early in 2024 just in time for planting. Delivery will begin in February 2024
Please Note: These are a pre season item and as such, if you are ordering other items along with the pre season Seed Potatoes, all will be delivered with the seed potatoes
Growing Your Own Food is one of the most rewarding things that you can do in the garden. Growing edible plants such as Seed Potatoes and other kitchen favourites is easy, all it requires is soil, sunlight, water and a good shake of tlc.
Starting off seed potatoes with the first earlies during early spring through to Second Earlies and Main Crop will ensure that you are harvesting your own, freshest of home grown food throughout the summer and into autumn.
The potato has been a mainstay of Irish cuisine for centuries and today this much loved root vegetable is making a comeback in home gardens. There are many different varieties of seed potatoes to choose from:
First Earlies Seed Potatoes:
- Home Guard - My favourite early potato, firm and full of flavour when cooked. This perfect all rounder has a short dormancy period making them very early on harvesting. A high yielding, short oval tubered variety that has white skins and a white creamy-floury textured flesh that give an excellent flavour. This wartime variety was introduced in 1942 and is still as popular within the kitchen today as it was then.
- Orla - A blight-resistant salad Cream skin and pale yellow flesh. Although it's a first early variety, it can also be grown as a second early and early maincrop
- Duke Of York - early harvesting 'Heritage Potato' first bred in 1891 that as become famous for it's superb rich flavour. A cream skinned oval tuber with a light-yellow waxy flesh making them perfect for freshly boiled new potatoes or salads. The plant itself is lowing growing therefore making them suitable to be grown in windy gardens.
- Solist - Extremely early harvesting variety that produces high yields of medium sized round to oval shaped tubers that store well. Yellow skinned potatoes with a firm yellow flesh that are excellent served hot or cold with Salads.
Second Earlies Seed Potatoes varieties available:
- British Queens - One of the most popular of all. Full of flavour, floury texture, this 'Heritage Potato' is 125 years old and is widely grown for it's good yields, shape and delicious flavour. Short oval white skinned tubers with a white, floury texture will give rise to exceptional roast potatoes. A great general purpose potato in the kitchen.
- Charlotte - Excellent salad type new potato with good blight resistance. This 'classic' salad potato with their enticing fresh flavour are a kitchen essential for any cook. Numerous long, oval cream skinned tubers with a firm but waxy light-yellow flesh are delicious served either hot or cold. Excellent when boiled as they hold their shape well or used in salads.
- Nicola - Produces numerous long oval tubers with a cream skin and a waxy textured medium-yellow flesh with a mild, buttery flavour. They have excellent boiling qualities so are ideal cooked as either boiled new potatoes or eaten with salads. Can be eaten either hot or cold, with or without skins. Great for growing in pots and containers.
- Purple Rain - A purple skinned potato with a firm textured, purple flesh that has a enjoyable flavour. A great all round potato in the kitchen but ideal boiled or steamed. Good storage qualities.
Main crop Seed Potatoes:
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- Arran Victory- This 'Heritage Variety' potato was first introduced in 1918 to help celebrate the end of World War One. Tall weed suppressing foliage produces a moderately high yield of Blue-Purple, smooth skinned oval tubers with very bright white floury flesh that is full of flavour.
- Cara - Extremely high yielding and vigorous variety that produces uniform, white skinned, short oval tubers with red eyes. A very popular and versatile potato within the kitchen for it's floury, sweet, mild flavoured cream flesh. Excellent disease and drought resistance and it's strong, bushy foliage prevents wind damage. Superb for baking.
- Desiree - An old favourite variety to grow because of it's resistance to drought, numerous tubers and early bulking capabilities. A kitchen essential for cooks with it's large, long oval tubers and distinguished red skins that have a floury, light-yellow flesh. A great all rounder but especially perfect for creamy tasting mash that has a unique taste. Perfect to grow in poor, heavy, clay-like soils.
- Dunbar Standard - A high yielding potato variety that grows particularly well in heavy soils with tall, vigorous foliage. This variety produces long, oval shaped tubers that have a bold, white skin and a cream, strong, earthy flavoured white flesh. They make particularly good jacket potatoes.
- Golden Wonder - My favourite Maincrop and one of the most popular. A 'Heritage Potato' variety first introduced in 1906 that still remains popular today due to it's very floury texture making it superb for baking, roasting or frying. Long oval tubers with a thick russet coloured skin and cream flesh provide a very rich flavour which intensifies upon storage.
- Kerrs PInk - One of the most popular of all. Pink skin and floury flesh. Short oval pink skinned tubers with cream flesh that has a very floury texture. Excellent for mash, roast and baking. Traditionally they are cooked with their skins left on.
- King Edward - One of the oldest varieties of potato still grown commercially today. It is believed that this 'Heritage Potato' varieties introduction coincided with the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902 and as so was named to commemorate this occasion. Numerous tubers per plant are produced of pink blushed, cream skinned oval potatoes with a cream floury flesh. A kitchen essential for roast potatoes to any cook as they are renowned for their light, fluffy texture that gives rise to a strong, aromatic flavour.
- Maris Piper - The most widely grown and best known variety of Main Crop potatoes. A great variety for beginners to grow and suitable for storage. High yielding with many tubers per plant of cream skinned oval tubers that have a cream, floury textured flesh. A kitchen essential for any cook being a versatile all rounder and having a good, mild flavour. Superb for chips.
- Pentland Dell - This potato variety has a strong resistance against slugs and produces large white skinned tubers with a creamy-white flesh that has a firm but floury texture. Particularly suited for chips but can also bake well.
- Record - Oval, yellow potatoes, floury in texture. This classic floury textured potato variety is a popular choice amongst the crisp industry due to it's high dry matter. A yellow skinned potato with yellow flesh that has a great all round use in the kitchen. Use particularly for crisping and frying.
- Sarpo Mira - The most widely known and the highest resistant to blight variety from the 'Sarpo Family'. The 'potato of choice' for organic growers with their ability to grow well in a wide range of soils. Deep roots allow drought tolerance and tall weed suppressing foliage produce huge yields of long oval, pink skinned tubers that have a floury textured white flesh emitting a strong, aromatic potato taste. A good all round use in the kitchen but perfect for baking and mash. Excellent long term storage potential.
- Rooster – Red skinned variety with yellow flesh. A floury potato, good for baking, roasting, boiling, mashing and chipping.
No matter which variety you pick it is important to be realistic about the space you want to give up in your garden and the amount of each variety you have room to store or want to eat fresh.
One of the best varieties to start with is Sarpo as it is completely resistant to potato blight a real scourge in our climate.
For a successful potato crop you will need to set aside a large plot of nutrient rich soil somewhere in your garden that enjoys full sunshine.
No matter the Seed Potato you choose, it is worthwhile to sprout your seed potatoes before planting them as this speeds up the harvest time by as much as three weeks. To sprout your potatoes place the tubers (one deep) in soil and leave them to rest in a greenhouse or on a warm, sunlit windowsill until they begin to sprout. When your tubers are approximately 2.5 cm long they are ready to plant.
Potatoes are relatively easy to grow but first it is important to prepare the soil by digging nutrient rich organic matter or the plant based and organic, Nature Safe Granular Plant Food into trenches.
Plant your sprouted tubers (shoots pointing up) and keep the new plants well watered. Keep an eye on your potatoes and notice when shoots start to appear. Earth up around the shoots as they grow so that only the very tip of the shoot is visible.
First Earlies Seed Potatoes can be planted from January to March. Planting potatoes this early means you will be harvesting from May to July, but beware of frost as this will damage the young plants.
Second Earlies Seed Potatoes should be planted from February to April for harvesting in June onwards.
If you don’t have a lot of space in your garden for seed potatoes then you should concentrate on the earlier types because they can be planted closer together (30–40 cm apart in rows that are approx 40–50 cm apart) and are less likely to suffer from blight and other disease.
Early Seed Potatoes are ready 15–16 weeks after planting.
Maincrop Seed Potatoes are the most common varieties and although they take up the most space in the garden they are the best varieties to store.
The traditional planting time for Maincrop Seed Potatoes is anytime after St Patrick's Day, 17th March and these can be harvested 18–20 weeks after planting (August through to late September).
Be careful to store your potatoes correctly in a cool dry place to prevent them from going bad.
There are a few basic tips that will help ensure you have a healthy potato crop:
- Don’t overwater,
- Don’t plant tomato plants next to your potatoes as they are affected by the same blight,
- Always remove infected or dead potato plants from the garden
- And for sure results, plant a blight resistant variety such as Sarpo
Your potatoes are ready when they start to flower – harvest and enjoy.
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Wild Bird and Garden Wildlife Products
Promoting biodiversity in your garden and encouraging garden wildlife and birds to your garden not only makes your garden a more attractive place in which to be but it also helps to maintain and restore that most important element of all, the Natural Balance.
By ensuring a good diversity of garden wildlife species in your garden you will ensure that there will never be an unnatural build up of any one species.
Attracting birds to your garden and providing them with a safe haven will pay dividends, not just by providing you with cheer each day as you admire them flying, singing and feeding in your garden but they will also control a wide range of garden pests from vine weevil to slugs and snails.
Wild Bird Care
Birds are a delightful addition to any garden and apart from their visual beauty and birdsong, they will repay us by helping to maintain the natural balance in the garden by feeding on a variety of common garden pests such as slugs, snails and vine weevils.
With many of our natural nest sites like large, old decaying trees disappearing from our gardens, we need to provide nest boxes as well as feeders and birdbaths.
Further encouraging garden birds into our gardens and keep them healthy and happy. This shortage of natural nesting sites for birds has played a part in the decline of some of our most iconic species.
It is now easier than ever to provide functional and beautiful nesting opportunities for birds in our gardens and outdoor spaces. By putting up boxes in the autumn, you can give much-needed winter refuges for roosting birds, which possibly increase the chances of them staying and nesting in the spring.
This is an excellent practice to maintain as a well-designed nest box will only need cleaning once per year. Waiting until autumn to clean them ensures they are not occupied.
One of the key determinants in how likely birds are to occupy nest boxes is where you choose to locate them.
Remember to place nest boxes away from feeders and baths.
Position them high enough to be safe from predators.
And never disturb the birds once they’re in the box; enjoy watching from afar.
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