Combining intensive green roofs with green walls is proving a very successful way of providing beneficial habitats for wildlife in urban areas.

Roof gardens provide a welcome sanctuary for city dwellers and for the local birds and insects that visit these wildlife friendly gardens.

Skylarks have been known to nest in the ground cover on these green roofs, which when you think about it proves how natural these habitats are. A whole host of other creatures from moths to bees benefit from vertical gardens, which are also aptly described as a living wall.

Wildflower gardens and most definitely wildflower meadows make a real contribution in producing the all important nectar needed by native insects.

We can use a wildflower mix of seeds or wildflower plugs to help establish wildflowers in our garden. Many chose to use previously grown wildflower turf
that can be purchased from specialized suppliers.

Once down usually a good show of wildflowers can be enjoyed within the season and this then improves in the years that follow.

Wildflower gardens are a real step in the right direction when thinking about creating a wildlife friendly garden.

Making organic compost can be an easy task or a difficult one. What often makes the difference is the ingredients used to produce garden compost. Obviously organic material is needed, a mix is best, most definitely not all grass cuttings. Then there is the need for a compost activator, this will help the whole process to be activated ensuring success.

Choosing the right composting equipment for our situation will help but for successful garden composting we do not need to spend money as a home made compost bin will produce healthy organic compost.

When your patio gardening ambitions are bigger than the space you have for them, that's when container gardening can come to the rescue.

Containers can be such a convenient way to green up your patio. The great thing about patio container gardening is that you don't even need to pick out the spot. Containers can be moved as and when needed. Containers can be light enough that you can just move them at will so you can put them up on a rooftop patio or out on a patio balcony or on an apartment patio area.

If you should have sensitive perennial plants like kitchen herbs in your containers, you could find that they don't take very well to being exposed to the elements in the winter. To keep them alive and growing year-round, you'll have to move those patio gardening containers indoors or provide protection outside with a small portable greenhouse or cold frame.

The fact that winters aren't without sunshine, you just need to move those containers out in the sun for a couple of hours a few days a week and your plants will be perfectly happy.

You can go out and dig in your property to have the garden of your dreams. You can also try something different and new (to you) like raised bed gardening.

Though most people with good soil can have a garden in any way that they want, this option is not something of which they have considered before now. Those that live with less than ideal conditions find that raised beds are actually the only way
that they can successfully grow and cultivate a beautiful and functional garden.

Some use these to put flowers around their property, others because they do not want to contend with a large garden day in and day out. Instead, of planting rows and rows of pumpkins, perhaps someone with this type of garden plants select herbs that they want to use in their cooking recipes.

Raised bed gardening can look stunning.

Some people love the look of raised bed gardening so much that they do it all over the place, even when they don't need to. They can make levels upon levels that can have a very stunning look if done right. Not only are raised beds fun to look at, they can be down right gorgeous if done right.

Start your gardening on your own, and if you need help, find a local landscaper that may very well have the right ideas to take your budding creation to the next stunning level. You can enjoy your new landscaping with minimal work, watering, and with a lot of love.

Raised bed gardening is compatible with wildlife gardening in many ways, the least being you can have the types of soils needed for the vegetables you desire whilst also having poorer soil ideal for wildflowers.