Badgers to birds
The garden attracts all sorts of wildlife, from badgers and foxes to many different bird species.
We have to keep the gates to our fountain garden shut at night to stop the badgers getting in and digging up our flower beds.
Look out for...
Kestrels
We often have nesting pairs in our horse chestnut tree by the ice house.
Woodpeckers
Green woodpeckers on the grass and Great spotted woodpeckers up in the trees.
Butterflies
Look out for these species: Comma, Orange-tip, Painted lady, Peacock, Red admiral and Small copper.
Our flower meadow
Enjoy a stroll along the river on your way to Ham and approach the house through our flower meadow. This is an increasingly important habitat for wildflowers, animals, insects and birds.
A love-hate relationship
We don't encourage slugs, but they love it here. Though they do eat young plants faster than we can grow them, they also eat decaying plant material. We love and hate them.
Natural predators
We encourage ladybirds in the garden as the natural predator of garden nuisances like aphids and mites.
