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Jon Hawkins Surrey Hills Photography

Previous Wild About Gardens themes

Each year, Wild About Gardens focusses on a different wild subject. We've celebrated bees and beetles, promoted ponds and even learned to make friends with molluscs. You can explore the themes from previous years below.

A snail, with a pale brown shell, perched on the end of a leaf

© Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography

Make friends with molluscs

Living with slugs and snails

Find out more
Dandelion

Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography

Wild About Lawns

A lawn can be so much more than a patch of grass

Let's grow!
A pale yellow brimstone butterfly nectaring on a purplish-red flower

Brimstone butterfly © Jim Higham

Grow a secret garden for butterflies

Provide a home for butterflies, moths and their caterpillars

Learn more
A common frog poking its head out of the water

Common frog © Vaughn Matthews

Big or small, ponds for all

Make a splash for wildlife in your garden

Dive in!
Hedgehog

Hedgehog © Jon Hawkins – Surrey Hills Photography

Get creative for hedgehogs

Small steps to help save hedgehogs

Get started
Several worms wriggling in a person's hand

Earthworms © Alan Price/Gatehouse Studio

Go wild for worms

Worms make the world turn

Dig in
A brown long-eared bat peeking out from beneath a roof tile

Brown long-eared bat © Tom Marshall

Stars of the night

Create a haven for bats

Take flight
A bumblebee flying towards the purple flowers of a bluebell

Bumblebee © Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography

Your wild bee action pack

Get your garden buzzing for bees

Buzz into action
A 7-spot ladybird crawling across the blue flowers of forget-me-not

7-spot ladybird © Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography

Bring back our beetles

These incredible insects do so much for our gardens, but they need our help

Learn more
House martin flying

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Wild about high fliers

Welcoming swifts, swallows and martins

Get started