Our gardens are teeming with life in July. Butterflies and bees are busy in the borders, dragonflies patrol the ponds and bats are out hunting on long summer evenings. It’s the perfect month to let nature take its course, while you relax and enjoy time in your wildlife haven.

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Avoid trimming hedges as birds might still be nesting. Leave seedheads to develop to provide a late summer feast for the birds and let plants like nettles, ivy and dandelions grow to feed a range of caterpillars. A sunny patch of nettles at the back of the garden could host the larvae of small tortoiseshell, comma and peacock butterflies, and angle shades and burnished brass moth caterpillars.

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