Making your garden a year-round haven for wildlife

Claire Hanley-Opik of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust offers some timely advice on how we can help the county’s wildlife through the winter months.

IT CAN OFTEN FEEL that winter is an empty season for the gardener. Plants have died back, and it seems like there is less wildlife about. But gardens can be a haven for wildlife during the winter months, providing an important source of food and shelter for all kinds of species, from bugs and birds to mammals and minibeasts…