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Make your green fingers even greener

03 February 2010

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Make your Green Fingers even Greener

Surrey Wildlife Trust has linked up with Squire's Garden Centres in Long Ditton to create a wildlife garden in the grounds around the centre.

The project kicks off on 9-10 February at Long Ditton and the Trust are calling for local people to come and lend a hand to build wildlife attracting features which they can then hopefully recreate in their own gardens!

The project hopes to install bird boxes and bird feeding stations, a bug block of flats, a native hedgerow, a hibernaculum and wildflower patch. The work will be taking place between 9am and 4pm on both days and a light lunch is being provided by Squire's.

Jodie Mills, People and Wildlife Manager from Surrey Wildlife Trust said, "Gardens are becoming increasingly important havens for wildlife as habitats in the countryside shrink and fragment and climate change takes its toll. We hope that by linking up with Squire's Garden Centres we can inform people about sustainable gardening practices that encourage wildlife and environmental conservation and have fun building some of the features in the process".

The project is also hoping to get local schools involved by launching a competition to help design the information boards that will be placed around the new wildlife garden to give visitors to the garden centre advice on wildlife friendly gardening. The project at Long Ditton is only the start of the relationship with Squire's Garden Centres as other wildlife gardening proposals are also planned for the West Horseley and Woking centres. The staff from the centres are also mucking in to help build the wildlife gardens.

For more information about the Wildlife Gardening project please pop into the Long Ditton centre or contact Jodie Mills on 01483 795468 or 07968 832509 or email: jodie.mills@surreywt.org.uk

Further information on Surrey Wildlife Trust can be found at http://www.surreywildlifetrust.org/

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