In autumn and winter in particular, numerous animals find shelter and food in your garden.
You can easily help the garden animals hibernate.
We reveal how.
Munich - Summer is slowly coming to an end and autumn and winter are drawing closer.
So it's high time to prepare the garden for the cold season.
You can also do something good for the animals in your garden.
We reveal how you can help with the winter.
Animals in your own garden: this is how you can help hibernate
Numerous animals seek shelter in our gardens during the cold season.
As early as autumn, many animals start looking for suitable winter quarters: hedgehogs, dormice, squirrels, bats, but also wild bees, ladybugs and toads.
But what can you do now?
The answer is very simple: Don't take too much care in keeping your garden tidy.
Animals such as hedgehogs and insects survive the winter in piles of leaves and brushwood or in dead wood, as the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) explains.
You should also not rush to remove dead plants, especially dead seed heads, from your garden.
Because they serve as a source of food for birds and provide shelter for insects.
If you pile up some dead wood or small stones, toads and rodents can also hibernate here.
Help with finding food: your garden in autumn and winter
But they can also help the animals in your garden to find food.
So it is advisable to set up feeding places for the different animal species.
Birds are helped with a classic bird house, squirrels are happy about a bird feeder in which nuts and pine cones are ready for them.
In addition to overwintering the animals, you shouldn't neglect your plants either.
We explain which plants can be left outside and which plants should be brought inside to overwinter.
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