Welcome to the Garden Ninja Gardening Forum! If you have a gardening question that you can't find answers to then ask below to seek help from the Garden Ninja army! Please make your garden questions as specific and detailed as possible so the community can provide comprehensive answers in the online forum below.

Welcome to the ultimate beginner gardening and garden design forum! Where no gardening question is too silly or obvious. This online gardening forum is run by Lee Burkhill, the Garden Ninja from BBC 1's Garden Rescue and a trusted group of experienced gardeners.

Whether you are a beginner or an expert gardener, it's a safe place to ask garden-related questions for garden design or planting. If you have a problem in your garden or need help, this is the Garden Forum for you!

Garden Ninja forum ask a question

Posting Rules: This space is open for all garden-related questions. Please be polite, courteous and respectful. If you wouldn't say it to your mum's face, then don't post it here. Please don't promote, sell, link spam or advertise here. Please don't ask for 'cheeky' full Garden redesigns here. They will be deleted.

If you need a garden design service, please use this page to book a design consultation. I will block anyone who breaks these rules or is discourteous to the Garden Ninja Community.

Join the forum below with your gardening questions!

Please or Register to create posts and topics.

Hi everyone! Creating my dream wildlife garden

Hi all, my partner and I have *finally* been able to buy a house and now have our own garden! It's a new build so we're starting from scratch with a blank canvas and aiming to create a real haven for wildlife - no astroturf and decking for us... 

So far we've built a big pond and planted it up with native marginals, planted a few bits and bobs (star jasmine, rosemary, lavender, clematis) and are going to start putting in trees and shrubs this winter. We're also in the process of building a 'living fence' for climbers, log piles and stone cairns for critters, and have of course dug holes under the fence for wildlife to get in. We're on heavy - and I mean HEAVY - clay, with no topsoil to speak of, so digging is fun (not).

Any other wildlife gardeners, new build gardeners or heavy clay gardeners out there with any advice? Or just want to see a pic of our pond???

Lee Garden Ninja and BelfastSink have reacted to this post.
Lee Garden NinjaBelfastSink

Hello!!! Your garden sounds great. Please do post some pictures!! The vertical living fence sounds really interesting. Our yard is more or less hardcore beneath the paving, which will limit our planting so this sounds like a great way to get the wildlife in. ?

Lee Garden Ninja has reacted to this post.
Lee Garden Ninja
Online garden design courses

Share this now!