One hundred

This marks the 100th post about the garden and our slow process of converting it to a wildlife haven. We've made some good progress over the past couple of years, adding lots of pollinator-friendly plants, leaving sections of grass to grow long (leading to an explosion of grasshoppers) and coddling along some of the native flowers that have returned to the property.

The resulting increase in insects, birds and mammals visiting the property has certainly been encouraging. We've documented 905 species as of this week, with more to come as we comb through the lists to see what we've forgotten to add. The main thing we've learned though, is how much we don't know! There are whole orders of arthropods we haven't yet been able to wrap our brains around (ants, aphids and woodlice, we're looking at you).

Doing research for the posts has been good fun, and has led to us learning lots of new facts, even about species we thought we already knew well. We hope you'll continue to share the journey with us. There's plenty more to discover out there!