Gardening for Champions

Gardening for Champions The team from the University of Leeds explains how you become a gardening champion This page has been created by the team at the University of Leeds.

A gardener can become a gardening champion by improving the quality or quantity of the individual services of a garden. Many gardeners are already well aware of the importance of, for example, having a wildflower corner, installing water butts, or avoiding peat-based soil products. However, by making lots of often small but interconnected changes to a garden, a gardener can reap the many benefits

that result. Our website provides more information of the changes you can make to your garden to increase its social and environmental value. Most of these changes are small and can be carried out without having to dramatically alter your outdoor space. And while we focus on the particular service areas of water, carbon and pollination, there are many more which we will add to this site over the next few months and years. You may already be doing many of the aspects we highlight, or this page may inspire you to do more. Either way, we would like to hear from you! You can register as an ecosystem services champion at our Get Involved webpage and we would welcome your ideas, suggestions/tips and comments for boosting the ecosystem services of gardens!

Fancy building your own bee hotel?
26/06/2012

Fancy building your own bee hotel?

26/06/2012

Pollinators provide vital services for many crops, and especially fruit and vegetable production.

26/06/2012

What to make your garden more water friendly?

26/06/2012

Use your garden to reduce your carbon footprint by growing your own food. A 600g serving of frozen carrots can release greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1kg carbon dioxide (CO2). Growing your own can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint. However, these savings can easily be outweighed, for example by taking special car journeys to buy the seeds, or by relying on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, all with their own carbon emissions.

15/06/2012

We’re still waiting for Patricia Morgan, the winner of our wonderful Bee hotel to get in touch. If we don’t hear anything by Monday 18th June, we will be giving the prize away to charity.

01/06/2012

The long Jubilee weekend is here! What are you planning to do with those extra days off?

31/05/2012

Did all the lovely sunshine we had recently help your garden grow?

30/05/2012

Well done Helen Boyd! You can thank your grandmother now, you have just won our VIP tickets to BBC Gardeners’ World Live. Your tip, placing used tea leaves around the base of Hydrangeas to change the colour they bloom in, received the most likes making it the top tip in the Messy Garden. Message us with your details and we’ll get the tickets over to you as soon as.

A lot of you probably haven't been able to get over to RHS Chelsea and see our award winning garden. Here it is, what do...
25/05/2012

A lot of you probably haven't been able to get over to RHS Chelsea and see our award winning garden. Here it is, what do you all think?

Hi Guys, you only have a few days left to enter our fantastic competition in the Messy Garden. Leave us your best garden...
24/05/2012

Hi Guys, you only have a few days left to enter our fantastic competition in the Messy Garden. Leave us your best gardening tip and win tickets to the BBC Gardeners World Live show in Birmingham on 13th-17th June: http://apps.facebook.com/messy-garden/

22/05/2012

We've won the gold! Our garden came out top in the Environment category with our first ever exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

University of Leeds News - University of Leeds takes Gold at Chelsea Flower Show - The University of Leeds has scooped Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show today (22 May) with its first exhibit at the prestigious event.

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