AS part of the Kingsbridge Open Gardens event this weekend, Vivienne Mumford from Kingsbridge will be encouraging visitors to open their gardens to hedgehogs too.

Getting neighbours to work together, creating passageways from garden to garden is one of the key messages of the Hedgehog Street campaign promoted by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species.

Our spiky friends can roam up to two miles a night in search of food and so everything we can do to make our gardens accessible and wildlife-friendly is vital.

In 2011, when the Hedgehog Street campaign was launched, Martin Hughes-Games and the Springwatch film crew visited Nature Diarist, Fiona Van Es, to film her and some of her Loddiswell neighbours linking their gardens by creating 15cm holes or tunnels under fences.

Vivienne is keen to encourage more of her Kingsbridge neighbours to become hedgehog champions and will be welcoming visitors to her beautiful garden at Breakspeare, Embankment Road on Saturday and Sunday.

There will be plenty of hedgehog-related gardening ideas and some fun activities for families too. Tea and cakes will be available at Café Decks, in the Recreation Ground, next door.

Kingsbridge Open Gardens event takes place this weekend on Saturday, June 11, and Sunday, June 12, between 1.30pm and 5.30pm. Proceeds will be shared equally between Kingsbridge Community Gardens and St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth.

Tickets are available from Kingsbridge Information Centre, St Luke’s charity shops in Kingsbridge and Modbury or from Kingsbridge Community Garden, TQ7 1AW, from 1.30pm, on the Open Garden days.