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

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

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

REAL readers' gardens!

As winter eases and spring beckons, longer days bring the garden to life – and your growing year starts here…

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