Your wildlife month

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

Professor Buczacki is a borticultural expert, weiter and former chair of Gardeners Question Time

Our new columnist on the joys of untidy gardening in April and how she stops slugs in their tracks

Far from being mere pests, snails are at the heart of a healthy garden ecosystem. Discover the many ways they contribute and how you can work with – not against – them for a thriving plot

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

Find out which early species to watch for, how to make your patch more butterfly-friendly and where to record your sightings for science