Garden and Wildlife
Gardening brings pleasure to millions of homeowners throughout the country. There are a number of easy steps which you can take to get the most out of your garden.
Top Tips
- You can try and become more self-sufficient by growing your own fruit and vegetables. As well as being very satisfying, this is a much more environmentally friendly option to driving to the supermarket a few times a week.
- When gardening, try to use sustainable methods by recycling green garden waste in piles of compost. These can then be turned back into the garden to help maintain furtile and healthy soil conditions. If you need to use pesticides and fertilizers in your garden, make sure that you use organic alternatives which are just as effective and do not harm resident wildlife.
- As well as saving you money installing a water butt will allow you to collect chemical free rain water for use in your garden.
- Think carefully about what you are actually planting in the garden. Natural and indigenous plants are more attractive to local wildlife and have a greater resistance to disease than non-native species.
| A Garden can be defined as a planned space, outdoors in most cases and intended for the cultivation, display and enjoyment of plants and similar life forms. Garden beautification is accomplished by the joint use of natural and manmade materials. Gardening has for long been a form of recreation for mankind. The positive energy and bliss that one finds in gardening is incomparable to any other recreational activities. The major elements of a garden are soil, rock, lighting conditions, wind, precipitation and fresh air. It is possible to build your own domestic garden on top of your house too. The wide spread following that the hobby of gardening has led many scientists to develop many species in such a way that they are of great use to man. Many plants that were once thought to be wild have now been domesticated by the proper use of bio – engineering. The different types of garden are back garden, bog garden, cactus garden, fernery garden, flower garden, front garden, herb garden, orangery, orchard, rose garden, vegetable garden, white garden, wildflower garden and winter garden.
Wildlife can be defined as all those non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. From time immemorial man has been engaging in domesticating wildlife. It can be said that most of the domesticated animals and plants that we see today were once wild in nature. The reason for domestication of wildlife by mankind can be rightfully said to be food, medicines and petting. Initial domestication and further evolution made them as what we see them today. Wildlife is not constrained to any particular terrain or ecosystem. They are found in deserts, rain forests, plains, poles or rather everywhere. |
