Wild About the Garden

Carol Klein explains the benefits shunning our neatly trimmed flower beds to encourage wildlife back into British gardens. The five shows focused on different gardening environments and how simple changes and a shift to low-maintenance gardens could nurture vital species of wildlife.

Carol spoke to experts on ways in which gardens could cultivate species by replicating their natural habitats. Carol also looked at plants that could attract wildlife the most limited of gardens; transporting cuttings found in the harsh conditions of the Scottish Highlands to the balcony of a London flat.