Towns and gardens
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than…
Spare a thought for your garden wildlife as temperatures plummet and the rest of us wrap up warm, hunker down and prepare for the advent of spring. Winter is the hardest season for our wild garden…
Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden.
For his latest blog, Telling Our Story volunteer Simon headed to sunny Scarborough for the unveiling of "Sea Oak", the newest addition to YWT's Wild Eye coastal art and nature trail…
Community Engagement Manager, Jo, tells us all about the success of our Wildlife Gardening Award which launched in 2023. Applications are now open for 2024 - read on to learn why you should enter…
It has been drummed into so many of us that some plants are bad news – they’re unsightly, dangerous to other plants, and if you see any creeping into your garden you should immediately pull them…
The sight of an iridescent swallow flitting across a riverside meadow in the morning sun has been a welcome herald of spring in our northern climes for millennia.
Gardeners everywhere are making plans for spring and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are renewing their call, encouraging gardeners everywhere to make space for wildlife – no matter how big or small your…
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm…
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…