Your garden
Tick things off as you go. What you tell us here makes next year’s plan better.
Your six changes
- Snowdropsunny border
- Cowsliplawn edge
- Common nettle patchsunny corner
- Wildflower patchsunny border
- Log pileshady corner
- Container pondpart shade
What to look for this spring
Brimstone
Gonepteryx rhamni
Often the first butterfly of the year.
Look from late February.
Hedgehog
Erinaceus europaeus
Emerging from hibernation
around late March.
Buff-tailed bumblebee
Bombus terrestris
Queens searching for nest sites
on the first warm days.