Well logs wont help with frogs as they males tend to hibernate in the mud at the bottom of the pond whilst the females seem to prefer a muddy ditch! Any decaying log is going to encourage insect life into your garden both good and bad. Hedgehogs tend to hibernate in the bottom of a hedge, in deep leaf litter, your compost heap (if it is a heap rather than in a plastic compost bin) and under wooden sheds and the like. Wildlife will come to your garden if there is an area they feel safe it, preferably one that has been left wild.

thats what im trying to achieve MG, thanks

I never left anything wild in this garden Moon grower, only a bit untidy in places!!!!! In the past we have had plenty of foxes and hedgehogs, mice, rats, the odd frog ,though no pond. They have stopped coming because of changes outside the garden such as using 'brownfield' sites nearbye to build houses and flats. I have 2 miniature woodpiles under shrubs. Started off with semi rotted finds of big hunks of wood, then bits put on top over time, dare not look, in case I disturb any occupants.

Your garden sounds a bit like mine Dorjac, I have the odd patch of white nettles and long tuffs of grass as I know the butterflies and beetles seem to like it that way. Next door has a very wild patch and I would say we get the same amount of wildlife visting both gardens. Want my garden to be wildlife friendly but not an eyesore

Wild does not need to be an eyesore we have countryside all around us so do not need to leave an area to grow naturally but in an urban situation if you want wildlife you do.

Hi Great. We went to a small steam fair with rough field parking last year. they had cut down a big nettle patch to make more room. In the middle was a rather large rotting chunk of wood. I brought this home to start a second small 'woodpile' under my Camellias. As Moongrower says it is important in town, in a 40 by 50 foot garden, to encourage a varied fauna (ahem),preferably with found items; as long as one doesn't take anything. though I do think you could get told off for taking a bit of rotten wood these days.

Dorjac, Ive already been "told off" for taking thrown away bricks out of a skip! So nothing new there lol My garden is 15 metres long and only 4.5 metres wide so pretty small really. Trying to cram as much in as I can for wildlife. Oh I think thats 70 feet by 13 feet or there abouts