Wildlife garden at the National History Museum - Roy Vickery

The Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum is an inspiration to anyone who wants to create a space for wild plants and animals. Buzzing with insects, packed with plants and home to birds, mammals and amphibians, it is hard to believe that the Wildlife Garden was once an ecologically barren lawn. Now, within this small area of urban land, you will find five British habitats, incorporating 29 types of rock, hundreds of trees and thousands of other plants.



Spend a year in the Wildlife Garden in the company of herons, foxes, bats, spiders and moths. Follow the seasons from the catkins, yellow primroses and tadpoles of Spring through to Winter, when mosses and red holly berries offer the only colour. Every stage in the garden's annual cycle is brought to life with the help of a lovely selection of colour photographs on every page. An ideal gift for all nature-lovers and gardeners.