Help animals like birds, bees, frogs, butterflies and hedgehogs by rearranging your garden. Support your animal friends with specific plants and by feeding them and providing shelter in your garden.

Help animals by planting food sources.

Bees and butterflies find less and less nectar, and the birds can also use some extra food. The coneflower and very hardy are beautiful plants that help both butterflies and bees. There are many more examples of typical bee plants. Other insects are happy with other greenery and birds are especially fond of berries and seeds.

Find out what suits your garden best and provide plants that bloom in different periods so that animals can enjoy your garden for as long as possible. People with pets should avoid poisonous plants for cats and poisonous plants for dogs.

Shelter in your garden.

With insect and bee hotels, bird houses and hedgehog hotels you already offer a nice shelter for animals in your garden. But also with your plants you can provide extra shelter spots and nesting facilities. Birds in particular love high plants in which they can crawl away. Think of early flowering ivy, Guelder-rose and Hawthorn.

A pond is a nice place to stay for frogs and toads, and it also attracts insects such as the dragonfly. This water spot is a great bathing place for birds.

Help animals find drinking and bathing places.

With a pond or simple bird bath you ensure a good bathing place. Some birds, but also other animals, like to use a sand bath. For this you put a pile of sand on a sheltered and safe place. Please note, this must be very fine sand. Place drinking bowls in different places and heights in your garden.

Garden is also a nice place to feed.

Offer animals extra help by not only offering them natural food in your garden. Feeding is unfortunately increasingly necessary. Most people are familiar with feeding birds, but also help the hedgehogs. Unfortunately, after a dry summer, the insects are often too deep in the ground for them. Give the animals cat chunks or hedgehog chunks slathered with dried insect pate.

Even garden waste can use animals.

Do you always clean up the pruning waste and autumn leaves in the garden very faithfully? Hedgehogs, birds, insects and snails would be grateful if you leave it alone. They love junk corners in the garden: it offers them shelter and a place to scratch.

Loose twigs are popular with birds in the spring to make nests. And do you know what they like to use for that? The loose hair from your brush! After every brushing you can safely drop the loose hair in the garden. Just make sure they are free from unnatural agents like hairspray and mousse.

The cold winter temperatures require extra support.

It is a myth that you can only help animals in winter, but when temperatures drop, many animals have an extra hard time. Those who go into hibernation can wake up in the meantime because they have to eat while there is hardly any food. Birds also need you extra in winter. In addition, make sure that drinking and bath trays do not freeze during this season.

With some extra garden jobs you can ensure that perennial plants and trees survive the winter well, so that they help animals survive again next year.

Animals make your garden more beautiful.

As an animal lover you naturally welcome the animals in your garden. But the place itself also benefits from these guests. Bees, butterflies and birds help pollinate the plants and, like other animals in the garden, increase biodiversity. This is good for the soil structure and planting, among other things. In short, it help animals and you help the rest of nature too!