How wildlife friendly can you make your garden?
Something BIG is stirring and I don’t just mean Spring! Over the Winter, a hard-working group from WildMaidenhead and WildCookham have been germinating a plan! It’s a plan that they hope will help get the village all fired up and even more enthusiastic about our local wildlife and in particular, what we can do in our own little way to help nurture it at home. Over the coming weeks you will start to see the group introduce the “Wild About Gardens” scheme. It will be open to ANYONE in the Cookhams with a private garden – no matter how large or small. Now it’s not a traditional competition, there is no winner as such, but I am told there is a party planned where they will be awarding special certificates, and there will be a Priceless Plaque (think of something that is definitely, almost certainly like the FA Cup or even better), that they intend * cough * will be handed down through generations to come in the village. So here’s the scoop, ahead of the press and directly from C