Old Colwyn Working Together

COMMUNITY AND WILDLIFE GARDEN PROJECT

IN PEOPLE’S MILLIONS FINAL

On Wednesday the 25^th November, you can vote for the Wildlife Gardening Project in North Wales. If we win most votes on the night we will win £50,000 and can carry on helping schools and community groups transform unused, unsightly areas into green havens for Wildlife and People. We will help create School and Community Gardens to be enjoyed by all!!

Visit www.peoplesmillions.org.uk to get the phone number on the 25^th Nov.

You can vote between 9am- midnight on the 25^th Nov by phoning in.

Calls cost 10p and you are allowed to call 10 times from each line!

Watch ITV Wales News Wed 25^th Nov between 6-6.30pm when the project will be shown.

Please help us!

WE NEED YOUR VOTE ON THE 25^TH

You will find that plenty of us Bugs make our homes in dead wood,

   animals use log piles  as a source of food. In woodlands, fallen wood occurs naturally and many species have adapted to use this habitat. But in our increasingly tidy countryside, fallen and dead wood is not so common. 

By removing our dead or dying trees from the parks & woodland, a section of natural nutrient cycle can be lost. A lack of dead wood reduces the species diversity by about 20%.

it is beleved that More than 1000 British species of invertebrates depend on dead wood for survival and about a dozen species of our birds need it for nesting as well as some bats for roosting. Many fungi also need dead wood to grow.

so we can all help our animal friends by simulateing  fallen trees and is considered essential in a wildlife garden. You can usually find somewhere to put a pile of logs, even in the smallest backyard. It is best placed in a shady spot, so that it remains cool and damp.

so lets make the most of your wildlife gardens

• Use a mixture of wood and different sized logs with the bark on, such as beech, oak, ash and elm.
• Adding a pile of leaf litter can attract even more creatures, such hibernating toads or hedgehogs.
• You will need to add new logs as the old ones decay over the years.   

 Butterfly border at Tan Y Coed Gardens by Jan Miller from www.northwalesbutterflies.org.uk

 This is a very good site if you are thinking of making a little room in  your garden for wildlife.

Saith Ffynnon Wildlife Plants

 From a very big bug @ Beach raod Old Colwyn to a very real bug @ St John's

Caterpillar  

Mullein Moth  

St John's

To some of us worms can seem to be an unpleasant.  But they are a sign that your wildlife garden is healthy and in great shape.

They are actually vital in that they aerate the soil, which maintains its structure and fertility. They also bring important nutrients to the surface and help with drainage, not forgetting that they are a vital food supply to all manner of bird species and other wildlife such as foxes, hedgehogs, moles and amphibians.

How Do Worms Improve The Health of our Gardens?

Worms convert organic material into nutrients, which plants can absorb. Because they loosen the soil, the roots of plants can grow more easily and it makes it easier for water and air to circulate within the soil, which, in turn, enables the soil to retain any water it receives far more effectively.

• There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms
•  In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.
•  Worms are cold-blooded animals.
• Baby worms are not born. They hatch from cocoons smaller than a grain of rice.
•  Even though worms don’t have eyes, they can sense light, especially at their anterior (front end). They move away from light and will become paralysed if exposed to light for too long (approximately one hour).
•  If a worm’s skin dries out, it will die.