Small Garden? Just a balcony? You can still help Birds, Bees, Moths, Butterflies, Bats and more!

Simple, practical things you can do in your garden to help bees, moths, butterflies, hedgehogs, birds, bats, and insects. Advice from BBC Radio Ulster's gardening expert Amy Kelly on how to make your garden more planet friendly with small changes that can make a big difference to our wildlife.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:12 Water for Birds and Hedgehogs
1:54 Wildlife friendly Pond Plants
3:03 Water Lilies and Water Iris
4:05 Water for Bees and Insects
4:47 Trees and Shrubs for Birds and Bees
6:05 Log Piles and Insect Hotels
6:50 Bat Boxes and Bird Boxes
8:31 Dense Planting for Wildlife
9:35 Flowers for Pollinators
10:05 Flowers for Hoverflies
10:32 Flowers for Bees
11:20 Flowers for Bumblebees
12:13 Flowers for Butterflies
13:32 Flowers for Moths
14:26 We can all do something for wildlife
14:58 Next Video, Home Grown Fruit, Veg, and Herbs

[@amykellygardening]

Your garden sounds wonderful! I wish everyone thought about wildlife the way you do.

[@jungsoopark1638]

“The garden is so beautiful I can’t take my eyes off it. I enjoyed it!”

[@amykellygardening]

That is so kind of you to say, thank you!

[@petekinsey2538]

This a brilliant video thank you for sharing.

[@Rose_1256]

Hi Amy. I just came across you here on KZbin. Fabulous informative video. You explained & included sooo much. Glad you included 'moths'. Thank you. Have liked & subscribed. Regards. Rose 🌼

[@lisalikesplants]

So glad I found your channel. Love seeing gardens from other places, love from Chicago❤🏙️🌱

[@bertiebloobell3285]

Amy, I enjoyed this video so much. It’s the first I have seen from you and I am definitely subscribing! You are a joy to watch - so calming and articulate. I’m off to look up the water plants that you have suggested. We have a very large pond on the farm (so will have a look at the lillies and irises) but I’ve decided that I’m going to make some container ponds in the garden around the house now too after being inspired by this video! 🐞

[@TheCornishCottageGarden-bs5lf]

Really useful video this! I love having plenty of Birds visiting my garden 😊

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks! If you have any specific bird questions, feel free to leave questions in the comments and I'll do an answer video for you 👍

[@TheCornishCottageGarden-bs5lf]

@@amykellygardening will do 🙂

[@markb1487]

As a landscape gardener of 24 years now,I grow fruit+veg for ourselves and customers...I liked this video,,and shall be watching your progress..🤞💯

[@h.sinclair]

congrats on the well deserved award your garden looks amazing and inspiring!! looking forward to hearing more cheers🔥

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks for the lovely comment. I have dozens of videos planned on gardening, foraging, growing your own food, and lots more!

[@radharcanna]

Lots of very useful information there. Your garden looks fantastic. Thank you.

[@amykellygardening]

Thank you 🌻

[@heatherlennox3695]

thanks for the bat and moth advice, there's not enough of it around!

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks for the comment! Bats and moths are such a neglected part of our ecosystem, but they are incredible. So glad you appreciate them, too!

[@LouciferFlump]

I have bats living in my loft, pipistrelles. I adore them…but then I am a Goth, so that was a given! 🥴

[@Rose_1256]

Yes... I agree re moths

[@punsk_studio]

Beautiful garden!

[@DJG19870]

Lovely video, thank you for sharing.

[@amykellygardening]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@geeker211]

This is so helpful, thanks for sharing!

[@amykellygardening]

Really glad it was useful. Thanks for the nice comment!

[@rushellrousseau9197]

Just discovered you. İ love this video. Gives me lots of ideas.

[@amykellygardening]

I'm so happy to hear that 😁 I just love wildlife and wish everyone would do something, even just one tiny thing, to help.

[@LouciferFlump]

What a lovely video, packed with nice tips. So nicely filmed and edited - I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers!! 🫤 I have 2 old coal bunkers in my garden that I don’t use for coal anymore. I’ve filled them with logs, twigs, pine cones, clippings, you name it, and they’ve become a massive bug hotel with a couple of lovely honeysuckles I have growing over the top of them! 🤗 You’ve a new subscriber, you’ve melted my cold black heart! 🖤👍🏻🤣

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks @LouciferFlum! This is the first better quality video like this that I've made, but I have loads more planned. Thank you so much for the encouragement 🥰

[@LouciferFlump]

@@amykellygardening yes I can see you’ve upped your game! Keep at it, it really was a great video. You’ve a nice relaxed style without the inane waffle that some people get embroiled with. So much content just in one video. Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻

[@CharlieBuckingham-dg2xv]

Fantastic video and absolutely beautiful garden!

[@CharlieBuckingham-dg2xv]

Subscribed 👍

[@amykellygardening]

Thank you for the kind comment, and especially thank you for subscribing!

[@davidskenyanmemoirs2756]

Fantastic knowledge. Very enjoyable.

[@amykellygardening]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting 😁

[@jaydavies2001]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@amykellygardening]

Really glad you enjoyed it!

[@angelapalmer3542]

Beautiful amazing garden..Thank you for sharing...

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks! ☺️

[@webdesignbelfast]

What a fantastic video Amy, very informative and I am now away to create my pond in a pot! Looking forward to the next one.

[@amykellygardening]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@terracegardeningislamabad7814]

Beauuuutiiifullll garden ❤❤❤

[@amykellygardening]

Thank you, that is so kind of you to say! I just watched a video of your amazing grapes ready to be harvested- they look wonderful!

[@snu3877]

I just stumbled upon your video here. I love the tips, and I like that you pack a lot of variety in a small space. That is how I do it in my front gardens as well. (My property here in CT, USA is just 50 ft. by 150 ft.)

[@amykellygardening]

Your garden sounds wonderful! You can do so much in a small garden ☺️

[@user-eg3mo3dy5y]

Thank you! 🌱🌞🌻❤👍

[@amykellygardening]

You are so welcome!

[@theworldisyours5831]

😂😂😂...me being a male, at the start I thought I was watching an episode from Rainbow 🌈 1970S 😂😂😂.... brilliant information as I I'm currently digging a wild life pond...

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks for the lovely compliment. I had to look up Rainbow, but that's so kind of you to compare me to such a popular programme 😁

[@joaquimdsouza9395]

That was a very interesting ideo thank you and God bless. Could you let me know what plant's to grow as I'm in India i have around 30 fruit plants?

[@derekemerson8053]

Great video,I hope to include some of the ideas and plants in my allotment (c32)

[@amykellygardening]

That is great, I'm so pleased you've been inspired! Anything you do will make a difference to our local wildlife :-)

[@michaeljonesdougherty.209]

💚 what a lovely garden And I love the fact that your planting for our animal friends My gardens are small cottage style that wraps around my home it's a certified wild habitat. We use no pesticide or chemicals. Only plant for our bees birds butterflies friends what ever else deside to stop by.....

[@amykellygardening]

Your garden sounds like an absolute delight!

[@boldpicturesgardeners]

Wow your gadern is beautiful ❤❤with lots of beneficial features to nature.a new subscriber

[@amykellygardening]

Thank you! I had so much fun creating it, and can't wait to share it in all seasons- wait until you see my spring bulbs 🌷

[@krihu4569]

amazing video, thank you

[@amykellygardening]

Thank you for the kind comment, much appreciated 😊

[@nicholasryan5401]

Beautiful looking pollinator garden, Its the bees knees.

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks very much! ❤️🐝

[@nickiramsay2421]

Lots of good advice, thank you

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks very much!

[@kamilechka.]

insect hotel GAGED love it

[@amykellygardening]

Thanks! 🪲

[@nakefatty9167]

Fantastic garden paradise. Thank you for showing me them Great Tits, what a beautiful bird, id love to have them visit me one day ❤

[@amykellygardening]

They really are a magnificent little bird! It's a bit of a running joke in our family that everyone loves to see my great tits! 😂

[@pinballwizard6906]

✌️😎

[@xTrengo]

audio plays only on the left side

[@amykellygardening]

Thank you for letting me know! I'm very sorry about that, I will make sure that it gets sorted for future videos 👍

[@emkn1479]

Here in my US zone 6 garden it seems that as soon as the plants are up and looking gorgeous in the spring, the four lined plant bug comes and ruins it all. The plants generally eventually recover but they look very bad and get burnt on the damaged areas. Do you deal with anything similar?

[@amykellygardening]

Hi! Are the bugs you mention possibly Colorado Potato Beetles? (Look it up online and see if they look the same, if you can.) If so, let me know and I'll try to do a short video for you on how to deal with them. My big "problem" insect right now is gooseberry sawfly, which has just eaten half the leaves off all my gooseberries 🫣 My fault for not getting my mulch down in time to interrupt the breeding cycle! Live and learn! Let me know about your beetles, if we can identify them, we'll know how to sort them out. 😁

[@emkn1479]

@@amykellygardening no, they’re not. Though I have those too 🫠 but they’re more specific in what they wreck. The four lined plant bug seems to like any and everything 😩

[@amykellygardening]

Ah, now I know the one you mean, Poecilocapsus lineatus. Give me a couple of weeks and I'll post a video for you with some advice to hopefully help! If you subscribe and click the bell for notifications it will let you know when I post it. Thanks for the question 👍

[@emkn1479]

@@amykellygardening yep, that’s the one! Your gorgeous valerian is what got me thinking-it seems to be specially hard hit. I moved it last year so it was already compromised and it looks almost dead now. There are a few spare shoots and I’ll give it a good watering, hoping for the best.

[@snu3877]

@@emkn1479 I freakin' hate the 4-lined bugs, and yes, they do attack so many things in my front garden. BUT.. after finding out their life cycle is just a month or so, and then they are gone, and they don't kill anything, I just get get annoyed but leave them alone rather than do battle with them. Oddly, on a lot of my plants, they just grow fresh foliage and I don't even notice the damaged leaves anymore (example: on my butterfly bush and mountain mint.)

[@barbara6204]

My garden is already full of wildlife, especially SLUGS 😢

[@amykellygardening]

Birds, frogs, and toads all eat slugs, so often bringing more birds etc. into your space will help put nature back in balance and help with your over-enthusiastic slugs.

[@barbara6204]

@amykellygardening over enthusiastic! That's right, well said 😁 it is really unfortunate because I have a small town garden, like 50sqm max, I can't put a pond, and there are birds but I do not want to attract them too much because there are also cats 🐈. So I put beer and it helps a little, but it is also veeery disgusting when the slugs fall in and I have to remove them. I heard that copper stripes or nets can help I will try that! But thanks!