Adding a wooden hedgehog house to your garden provides shelter for hibernating and breeding hedgehogs.
- the house needs to be at least 40 x 30cm
- an ideal size for the entrance hole is 13 x 13cm
- site the house in a quiet sheltered part of the garden and cover with vegetation or branches
You can find full instructions on how to construct a hog house at
Send photos of your completed Buxton hog houses by email and we will add them to this page.
Mel’s hedgehog house is perfectly disguised by branches and leaves, and mimics a hedgehog’s natural environment.
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