Wildlife Corridors Open Day
Please come to Transition Woodbridge’s open day for wild gardens on Saturday May 18th, 2024. Wild spaces are open for visiting in Woodbridge, Melton and Hasketon between 11.00 am and 3.00 pm.
Transition Woodbridge have invited people living in Woodbridge, Melton and nearby villages to leave part of their gardens to grow wild. This open day is an opportunity to view some of these green spaces in order to delight and encourage everyone to join in our Wildlife Corridors project. No space is too small to leave wild for nature. A pot of bee-friendly or wildflowers on your windowsill is enough to make a difference.
So, how do we go wild in our gardens? It can be a simple pile of leaves or branches in a corner over winter. Ponds are a good addition too. Provide bug hotels, nest boxes, bird feeders, hedgehog homes and passageways through fences for the movement and protection of wildlife. ‘No Mow May’ can get the party started!
We have over 100 gardens now and are hoping for even more people to join our Wildlife Corridors project to enhance our local biodiversity.
The gardens on display will showcase a wide range of features from small front gardens to glorious wildflower meadows, ponds and hedgerows.
The open gardens taking part are shown on a map and a list below. Those locations with a 
symbol will be offering refreshments.
Woodbridge
Small front garden, full of native plants beneficial for insects and birds, wildlife pond, tree stump and branch pile, active swift boxes
A small garden taking first steps towards nature reintroduction, with a lavender and herb gravel garden, swift box occupied by sparrows
A lovely nature hotspot, with native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers, a pond providing good habitat for insects and bats
Formal landscaping combined with wild nature reintroductions, an old sink pond, an ancient hedge and dead hedge, with grasses and wildflowers benefitting from variable mowing patterns.
With its lush, multi-layered plantings around a curving lawn, this garden offers clear delineations between wildness and tamed nature. Insect homes, bird feeders and water baths supplement nesting habitat and food for wildlife
Quaker Burial Ground
Turn Lane
Woodbridge
IP12 4AR
A precious community green space in the heart of town being restored with native wildflowers to increase biodiversity in this wildlife corridor
A third of an acre turned over to nature, with ponds, dead hedges, long grass area, drystone wall, has become a recently opened wildlife corridor, for nesting birds such as swifts, via a gateway to a neighbouring garden.
Melton
A front garden with a tidy mown lawn and trimmed shrubs, demonstrating how a little space for nature can be encouraged with a mixed planting of drought-tolerant flowering perennials, grasses, bulbs – and cornflowers
Well-established wildflower-friendly front garden and a laid hedge, with a newly-planted border of drought-resistant plants to attract pollinators
A peaceful nature haven with wildlife ponds, rewilded lawns, native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, dead hedges and tree stumps
Beautiful hidden garden full of biodiversity, with a wildlife pond, long grass area, native trees and shrubs, hedgehog homes and vegetable garden.
Hasketon
Touchwood
Top Road
Hasketon
IP13 6JE
A secluded space for nature with ponds, native trees, shrubs, wildflower meadow, many hedgehog homes, and a bonus wild, naturally-regenerating copse providing excellent habitat for varied wildlife.
Nearby St Andrew’s churchyard and the village green are also being managed for nature and worth a visit.