Friday, 23 June 2017

Hedgehog House

In St Brigids Garden we have made our own hedgehog house, you can see a photo of it over on our Instagram here.


If you would like to have one in your garden you can make them from things like old rabbit cages and pots, to just using things like logs and wood, or you can buy one too.

For information on looking after hedgehogs and encouraging them to your garden you can look at this article from BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/hedgehog_home/




Saturday, 3 June 2017

Plant Swap!

Want some free plants? Well there's a great way to get some! Recently some of the members of Blackwater Tidy Towns visited a wildflower talk at a garden centre in Wexford, and after the talk there was a plant swap, so you leave some plants and pick up some others for free!

We traded some of our herbs from St Brigids Garden for some tomato plants. Apparently there were even some cool plants available to swap, like "black tomatoes" and "mallow plants" (from which you can make marshmallow!).

We'd love to go another time!