Glad I'm not the only one who sees our green and pleasant East Anglian fields the same way Fishy65. I also agree regarding blocks of forestry too, I was thinking of well managed forests that have a mosaic of habitats in the process of primary and secondary succession rather than huge monocultures of trees all the same age, when I referred to model forestry! Sadly even the remaining deciduous woodland locally is of very little value to wildlife and pretty lifeless due to under management.
I don't think anyone is disagreeing at all either, both Lyn and Welshonion provided examples of exactly what doesn't surround my garden, I'm surrounded by factory farmed arable fields. Whilst it stays like that, I wildlife garden in the hope we may hang on to as many species as possible for all our children to know about and enjoy in the future. I guess growing up in East Anglia the impacts of intensive farming and the changes that have happened in my lifetime seem all too obvious, I do tend to forget there are places that are still mainly pastoral.
It's interesting to read different peoples experiences of the wildlife in the many varied types of countryside in which they live.I think the best we can do is to garden in a wildlife friendly way. I may have lost all my Doves to the Sparrowhawk in the past but I am glad to say that visitors to my garden tell me that it reminds them of Disneys Snow White it's so full of so many species of birds. I just wish they would help out with the housework as they did at the 7 Dwarfs cottage when Snow White was cleaning it all up ! !
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Glad I'm not the only one who sees our green and pleasant East Anglian fields the same way Fishy65. I also agree regarding blocks of forestry too, I was thinking of well managed forests that have a mosaic of habitats in the process of primary and secondary succession rather than huge monocultures of trees all the same age, when I referred to model forestry! Sadly even the remaining deciduous woodland locally is of very little value to wildlife and pretty lifeless due to under management.
I don't think anyone is disagreeing at all either, both Lyn and Welshonion provided examples of exactly what doesn't surround my garden, I'm surrounded by factory farmed arable fields. Whilst it stays like that, I wildlife garden in the hope we may hang on to as many species as possible for all our children to know about and enjoy in the future. I guess growing up in East Anglia the impacts of intensive farming and the changes that have happened in my lifetime seem all too obvious, I do tend to forget there are places that are still mainly pastoral.
It's interesting to read different peoples experiences of the wildlife in the many varied types of countryside in which they live.I think the best we can do is to garden in a wildlife friendly way. I may have lost all my Doves to the Sparrowhawk in the past but I am glad to say that visitors to my garden tell me that it reminds them of Disneys Snow White it's so full of so many species of birds. I just wish they would help out with the housework as they did at the 7 Dwarfs cottage when Snow White was cleaning it all up ! !
I'm sorryto disappoint you butterfly, but I have quite enough housework here thank you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.