February 14th is intrinsically linked to love and romance, and here’s a bit of a different slant on Valentine’s Day – this year, show some love to your garden birds!

For the British Trust for Ornithology are keeping with tradition and launching their National Nest Box Week on the 14th of February, which encourages all of us to provide a home for breeding birds.

Natural breeding sites are rapidly disappearing as woodland is removed and gardens altered, and providing a nest box will help with conservation in the UK and – as every gardener knows - encouraging birds into the garden is bad news for slugs and other pests.

We’ve got a great range of nesting habitats on our website, http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/HarrodSite/category/Caring+for+Nature/, and once you’ve got your box, visit the British Trust for Ornithology site at http://www.bto.org/nnbw/index.htm to find out how to participate fully.