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

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

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

In December 1997, we moved from a tiny London garden to our new home, Old Park Barn in Buckinghamshire. It was daunting – a huge leap of faith from gardening in an urban courtyard to essentially an ov