In this monthly series, the fantastic folk at health charity Thrive offer some lovely project ideas to help you find good reasons to enjoy the nurturing potential of your garden and the wider natural world

Giving garden wildlife a spring in their step

Some 68 per cent of British adults visit a garden centre each year with the hope of a brighter summer, according to the Horticultural Trades Association. We’ve all been there; filling the trolley with

Define your borders and support border plants that tend to flop by using salvaged or recycled pieces of wood. Varying lengths and widths work well and you only need a few sound planks to tame and comp

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

Apply these simple principles to your plot for dazzling results!