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in some nurseries. It also causes a nuisance by congregating in large numbers in buildings. Early arrivers give off an aggregation pheromone recruiting others to join the throng, until sometimes many thousands are knotted together.As can be seen from

building a garden for Laurent Perrier. Tom has won seven gold medals and is a master at designing show gardens. He has some spectacular drystone walls, some glorious birch trees and some of the largest box balls known to man.Next door to him is Andy

. It was a hoverfly. Myathropa florea is a handsome and distinctive fly, both wasp-like in its colours, and honeybee-like in its size, build and vuvuzela buzz.What was it doing in the drain? It was probably egg laying. This is one of the hoverflies

year before setting seed and dying.)This was no mean feat: I moved house twice, then turned its final resting place - my new little courtyard - into a building site for six months while transforming it into a garden.With each flagstone and bag of sand I

as great gobbets of turf and topsoil are heaped into enormous piles and then, slowly, from the chaos, a pond emerges.I know this is very different from many people's experience of building a pond as this is a garden which is bigger than most

spring bulbs. I've no idea where they're all going to go.Last year's spring bulb display went a bit wrong. In March my garden was a muddy building site and the daffodils I grew in pots looked a bit out of place. When I planted my containers of alliums

) is good nitrogen fixer for heavy soils. Sow from September to November.3. Mustard (Sinapis alba) is a brassica, so should not be followed by other brassicas in your crop rotation, as this can lead to the build up of diseases such as club root. Gardeners

a short flight to the raspberries, comfrey and clover he grows.If you want wildlife nesting in your garden, then build log and leaf piles, start a compost heap, leave a messy area, plant nectar-rich flowers and dig a pond. You could also use an old

I've had a great gardening year. It's hard to imagine my garden now as it was a year ago - a building site, with a huge pile of sand at one end and 200 paving stones and builders' rubble at the other. Then there was an awful lot of mud as we

of bumblebee now have few nesting options in the wild. It's great news for gardeners, as it means we can build on what we already have to make our gardens even better for bees.If you cater for bumblebees in your garden then honeybees and solitary bees