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

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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

Nadia Shaikh goes synaesthetic for the start of spring, almost tasting the orange tang of an early butterfly

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Spring is a wonderful time on the edible plot – the season stretches in front of us, full of hope, and everything is bursting into life. This, however, includes common garden pests who are springing i