Mrs Tiggywinkle leads the hedgehog way
I will never forget the first night in my new house seeing a mother hedgehog and her three babies walking across my lawn.
Search
Search
European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
How to help the humble hedgehog this Hedgehog Awareness Week
It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week from 30 April to 6 May! Considered a gardener’s best friend, this is a great time of year to make local hedgehogs feel at home in your green space.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
When was the last time you saw a hedgehog?
Hedgehogs as we know them today have lived here for at least half a million years. Now in drastic decline, they’re facing some serious challenges, particularly in rural areas. However, they are…
Team Wilder hedgehogs
Be part of Team Wilder and support actions for hedgehogs and all nature at home and in the community to benefit people and wildlife.
How to help hedgehogs in autumn
Autumn leaves strewn across our gardens, parks and towns are like a magical sprinkling of treasure for one of the UK’s most elusive creatures. Hedgehogs regularly come out top in surveys of…
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
Look out for hedgehogs this Bonfire Night
The clocks going back signals the start of cozy season, and Bonfire Night is just around the corner. Here are some tips for enjoying the festivities looking out for hedgehogs and the environment…
My jump leads
Ann and her husband nurture and cultivate specialist sphagnum mosses and vascular plants like bog cranberry for a community area of the moss: they’re kickstarting the vegetation growth on Little…