Liz has chosen her top varieties that offer food, shelter, or both, to our feathered friends

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life

Add support to peonies that have, large, heavy flowers such as ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ and ‘Duchesse de Nemours’. Special tapered, cone-shaped supports for peonies are available and can be simply pushed int

Work your way through your borders, removing dandelion flowerheads before they get the chance to set seed. Flowers of dandelions are a useful source of early nectar for pollinators but if they are abl

Position logs randomly around garden borders rather than in neat piles to recreate the way they fall naturally from trees in the wild. You could artfully arrange them around spring-flowering plants or

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth