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

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

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

Editor Kim Stoddart explains how to allow plants to grow a little wilder for greater all-weather protection

Make a splash by adding water to draw wildlife

As the long nights shorten, Mounton House garden quietly emerges from winter with delicate sprinklings of white narcissi, Scilla siberica and crocuses through the lawns. Daphnes fill the air with frag