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

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

Giving garden wildlife a spring in their step

Add support to peonies that have, large, heavy flowers such as ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ and ‘Duchesse de Nemours’. Special tapered, cone-shaped supports for peonies are available and can be simply pushed int

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