How to help garden wildlife survive winter

Winter is often a tough time for birds and animals, but there are lots of things gardeners can do – and not do – to help them outThe pretty autumnal changes outside your window – the fiery colouring of leaves, the gentle decline of herbaceous plants – are all about survival. With the mean months ahead of them, garden plants are shedding everything soft and vulnerable, withdrawing their energies below the earth to a bundle of roots, or dropping soft leaves so that only tou