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This year’s Wild About Gardens campaign, Grow a Secret Garden for Butterflies, run jointly by The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), is calling on gardeners to get growing to help the UK’s falling numbers of butterflies and moths. Mature Times...

Many gardeners are often thinking about how to attract more creatures to their plot through nectar-rich plants, bird food and good garden practices. But what if you are killing your wildlife with kindness? Are you unwittingly putting out the wrong scraps for animals,...

Warmer winter weather may have boosted the survival chances for smaller birds such as wrens and long-tailed tits, wildlife experts said after an annual bird survey. Silver Surfers reports that people who took part in the Big Garden Birdwatch, the biggest wildlife...

The TV presenter is fronting a campaign by RSPB, The Wildlife Trust and The Woodland Trust. UK households could give nature a massive boost by seeing their gardens, balconies, patios and windowsills as potential wildlife sanctuaries, according to the television...

As we move towards the winter months, we tend to spend less time out in the garden, but no less time looking at it. Here are some tips for the winter months. From the comfort of a warm armchair it can be disappointing to look over a garden of bare soil and decaying...

The number of older renters has reached record levels across the UK, with over-50s accounting for more than one in 10 rented households in Scotland, according to research. Figures from the Hamptons International Monthly Lettings Index show that, across Britain,...

Moving house can be an intimidating prospect for anyone at any stage of their life; especially around retirement age, and the process of buying a new property only adds more stress. 50 Plus reports that Churchill Retirement Living, a privately owned, family-run,...

With the hot weather, and how we can get out and about to enjoy it, on everyone’s minds, it’s interesting to learn that the great outdoors is a clear priority for our retirees when choosing a retirement property to call their home. 50 Plus reports that Retirement...

Hipsters, ninjas and zombies have joined traditional wheelbarrow-pushing characters and resurrected the brand this Summer. The Sun reports that GNOME sales have rocketed after the traditional red-capped figures were replaced by selfie-snapping models and gun-toting...

If you ever thought about growing your own plants and are interested in the process of gardening, maintaining a greenhouse is the best thing to do. Mature Times reports that while you will be able to grow new plants from your existing ones, you can also start growing...

Wine makers who practise the extreme form of organic grape growing, known as bio-dynamics, believe that only by putting back into the soil everything nature produces, and I mean everything, can vines can grow and wine be made in harmony with the earth’s rhythms....

'My house is my pension' say half of over 50s The number of people relying on the value of their house to fund their retirement has doubled in the past year, according to research from LV=. Money Observer reports that of a survey of working people aged over 50, some...