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Going hog wild
With the help of our BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine subscription we started turning our very standard garden into a wildlife garden. We put in a pond, a huge bug hotel, hedgehog houses and bat houses, and picked flowers and plants that would attract bees. We also got rid of our lawn and now have paths, beds and more spaces for insects and nature to hide within.
We were very excited when the hedgehogs started appearing, and felt excitement beyond measure when our hedgehog had hoglets in our garden. Here is a photo! In the words of Kevin Costner, “If you build it, they will come”!
Jo Sheppard, by email
I was interested to hear GW Editor Kevin Smith lamenting the lack of hedgehogs in his garden (Welcome, February issue). I have lived in the same property for 42 years and never seen a hedgehog. We have a very large garden with everything that they could require. Passage between the properties is mainly through native hedging.
There are fields across the road and behind the gardens. I know there are none about because we have never seen a squashed one on the road outside.