whitehorses: <p>Every year I hope to achieve a deeper understanding to live and work in harmony with Mother Nature/Earth. I permit her to dictate most of the develpment of our modest plot. Some might describe this as an excuse for not doing much, which is right and exactly what I think is the best way to garden As a result, I have bumble bees and the occasional ladybird, lacewings and many other insects. Robins, blackbirds, great tits, wrens, magpies, all nesting in and around the garden. Collared doves visit daily, along with hedgehogs, because I don't kill slugs and snails because I don't grow flowers they like to eat - the definitely don't like any of the cranesbill geraniums, so I have quite a collection All this, and more, in Milton Keynes.</p>