A garden with a pond made from a washing up bowl is among those that make up a 'wildlife corridor'.
Hilary Whyard said her patch of garden is "just a couple of feet by a couple of feet" but she wanted to make it as "wildlife friendly as possible"
She said her washing up bowl pond is "teeming with tiny life and dragonflies visit" and two hedgehogs drink from it.Her patch also has a hedgehog house, a bug hotel and she is about to build a stumpery - made from piled up logs, bark and other wood - for stag beetles."We need to encourage biodiversity and if we all did it we would have safe passage throughout our town.
She has a sink for a pond, old stumps that provide hiding spaces for beetles and a dead hedge is a hideaway for creatures.
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