Hi Joanna

We have always left that bottom portion of the garden as a bit of a natural wilderness, we added some extra ferns, and groundcover plants, and put water receptacles, birdfeeders and ladybird/bee houses down there, and the people that own the trees put up some owl nesting boxes...it's the rest of the space that I find so frustrating/challenging.

I feel a bit guilty moaning about it really as I'm very lucky to have such a space and all the wildlife that we have here - birds, bats, squirrels, owls, butterflies, hedgehogs, frogs and an abundance of insects and spiders, but on the same level I feel like I'm not doing justice and taking good enough care of what I do have by not getting done the works that need doing.