In time for school half-term holiday, Nightingale Garden has a new trail. It adds to the 12 small doors and 10 rabbits on the run. This time 14 minibeasts - mainly beetles - have come out of hiding to say hello.
How many can you spot? Do you like their names?
Big thanks to Julia who organised all the local families to do the painting for us. Such talent in the area.
They link with the beetle habitat work we have been doing: we now have a new dead hedge, a recently made beetle mound, well-established buried logs for stag beetles and lots of other hidey places for small creatures like our minibeast mansion, bug hotels, wood piles, compost bins and slow-rot bins. No wonder we meet so many of minibeasts everyday in the garden.
If you’d like to know more about being kind to beetles see the RHS/Wildlife Trust’s Wild about Gardens information.