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blanda prefers a sunny spot, and looks best planted on its own. Soak the corms overnight, then plant them a few inches apart in small groups or in bold drifts. They're reasonably priced, so you don't need to spend much to get maximum impact. Height 15cm

around your garden grazing on aphids and slugs. If you let full-sized hens into your borders then they will kick soil all over the shop and peck large holes in the emerging shoots of your most precious plants. Bantams are less destructive, but if the main

that once planted, a bamboo will spread like a forest fire and forcibly colonise great chunks of garden. The truth is, as with all things in gardening, that if you choose the wrong plant for your situation then you are setting yourself up for tears

. Flowers in March and April.'Spellbinder'If you want a classic daff with bright, golden trumpets and a delicate scent, then 'Dutch Master' is for you. It's perfect for Easter vases, growing 45cm tall and flowering in April. Plant in drifts to break up

. Gooseberry fool in June, summer pudding in July, made from freshly picked blackcurrants and raspberries, pears in September dripping honeysweet on your fingers - you get my drift. Nothing is more delicious than ripe fruit at the right time and place. I

clunking clockwork model of a beetle, it'll be feeding on the white or yellow bedstraws, drifts of which stain the surrounding fields.Sunday 8th Lizards are everywhere sunning themselves on walls and steps; everywhere we walk they are disturbed from