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Don't use a herbicide on your weeds—use a natural weed killer instead! Learn how to spray or smother weeds to make them go ...

Here's how to identify the insects eating your garden leaves by the evidence they leave behind. If leafcutter bees are ...

Strict regulations are in place to protect the UK’s diverse wildlife, especially during the critical spring breeding season.

Toxic substances used in flea and tick treatments pet owners give to their dogs and cats have been detected in birds' nests, ...

Gardeners have been told to 'leave a dead tree in situ' and not to tidy up their gardens, as experts reveal the ways in which ...

The Royal Horticultural Society has shared insights for garden lovers, suggesting that a tree stump need not be an eyesore ...

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 means gardeners can be fined for disturbing certain animals and their habitats ...

Gardeners are being urged to resist the temptation of tidying up their gardens, especially when it comes to a rotting tree ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Anyone who is thinking of tidying up their garden this spring should think again, as a tree stump warning has been issued to ...

A 23-year-old ecologist known as "The Bee Man" is on a mission to conserve solitary pollinators by building them structures ...