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What is wildlife gardening?

Wildlife gardening is gardening with wildlife in mind. It includes planting flowers for bees and other pollinators, native plants to encourage moths and butterflies to lay their eggs, providing leaf and log piles to shelter animals, and digging ponds. Providing a space for wildlife to feed and breed is

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