Ponds, hedges, bushes and trees are essential to wildlife. Where a habitat lacks water it severely limits wildlife. Digging ponds and giving shade and cover will amaze you how it attracts an enormous variety of birds you have never seen in your area before. My count went up rapidly to over 60 kinds of birds within the confines of my rural garden. We discouraged cats.
Amphibians which lacked stable water volumes for breeding will reward you by helping to keep pests down in your garden. Insects will be attracted and you will soon enjoy watching colourful butterflies and dragonflies. All this is possible without employing a JCB. All it takes is patience, a spade, a pick and a wheelbarrow. Use the spoil from your digging for landscaping, flood prevention or wind reducing banks or for drying out the soil in your more marshy bits.
Keep old fruit trees rather than cutting them down. Many birds enjoy plums, apples and pears. Soon you will have resident goldcrests, grey wagtails, tree creepers, umpteen warblers, coal, great and blue tits and dunnocks. Your pet robin will eat from your hand. If you must buy new trees get them cheap as bare rooted in winter. Willow cuttings can be harvested to make yet more trees in very quick succession. Acorns are usually only a walk away. Take a carrier bag and rubber gloves. Grow them in a polystyrene fruit box of compost then plant them out.
All this need cost you nothing except a trim waist.
Has anyone worked to improve their local green spaces?
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