Winter

Provide reliable food, unfrozen water and undisturbed shelter while natural resources are harder to find.

This season

Five gentle jobs with real value.

Choose what fits your space. Doing one task thoughtfully is more useful than trying to overhaul the whole garden at once.

Offer high-energy bird food and clean feeders regularly.

Break surface ice gently without pouring boiling water into ponds.

Avoid moving log piles, leaf heaps and dense shelter.

Plan next year's flowering sequence and habitat projects.

Plant bare-root hedging when conditions are suitable.

Build habitat