POLL: What are your plans for your garden this Spring?
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With Spring around the corner, are you embracing any of these garden trends? Leave your vote below and share your thoughts in the comments.
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Once you’ve voted, head to our story here to learn more about each of the trends.
Wildlife friendly: using insect-friendly planting and creating habitats for wildlife
Extending the use of the garden: utilising the garden as another ‘room’ with decor items like lighting, furniture and pergolas
Drought-tolerant designs: incorporating drier climate planting and irrigation systems
Less plastic: choosing a real lawn over artificial grass
Growing your own: carving out space to grow fruit, vegetables or cut flowers
Something else (let us know in the comments!)
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last yearWe share this world with many species and I love seeing the wildlife coming into my small garden. I don’t have a lawn but we have many insects and birds visiting, as well as hedgehogs, squirrels and a fox. Whenever I add new plants I always ensure they are bee friendly. Nothing epitomises summer like the gently buzzing of bees.
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