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

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

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

Jenny Sheldon from the Wildlife Trusts explains how moths are one of our best garden pollinators

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

There’s magic in every seed – so start planting them today for a garden bursting with colour and buzzing with life