When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

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

Purple punctuates the planting: here an acer, verbena and some pinky-purple crinum, or swamp lily, stand out

Make a splash by adding water to draw wildlife

Giving garden wildlife a spring in their step

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