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

REAL readers' gardens!

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

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

These expert picks for fragrant spring planting ensure your garden will smell as glorious as it looks

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