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plants in spring. Honesty can be established to ensure new seedlings every year, much as you would with other biennials, such as foxgloves.Honesty is well worth a place in any garden – I’d recommend adding it to your seed order right away. You’ll find

the drain, but I'm hoping the addition of a small tree and some shrubs and wildflowers will bring in a range of birds and insects.I was excited to discover which plants are native to my postcode. It turned out some familiar plants, such as foxglove

. Others are collected and sown in pots in a more organised manner. Among the seeds I've saved this year are foxglove, hellebore, columbine, scabious, Jacob's ladder, snapdragon and calendula.Around my plot I leave lettuce, mizuna, watercress, broad beans

and dry in the compost bin.So instead of removing plant debris, digging over borders and mulching this weekend, I'll be out foraging leaves from the park to top up my leaf piles, planting snake's head fritillary bulbs, moving foxglove seedlings and taking

and hollyhocks, and a lone foxglove! On the allotment, we still have strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and beans.It's all very well having cheery flowers, and being able to pick strawberries and raspberries in November, but I hope this doesn't happen every

plants, such as cranesbill geranium, teasel and foxglove. Let’s hope the weather holds up!Wishing you a happy, sunny and productive gardening year.

's cornflower, field poppy and bird's foot trefoil will have self-seeded in my lawn, but if not, I'll be sowing seed in the lawn's margins. The lone foxglove produced plenty of offspring, but I'll have to wait until 2012 to see those flower.I'm still not pleased

feeding, nesting and hibernation preferences. Tongue lengths determine which flowers the bees can feed on, so grow flowers with long corollas like red clover, honeysuckle and foxgloves to attract long-tongued bumblebees like the commmon carder (Bombus

in both sun and light shade. Some plants actually prefer shady conditions. These include aquilegia, foxglove, bleeding heart, brunnera and pulmonaria (left).Light, partial and dappled shadeDry shade is often caused by trees, which suck moisture out

:Wildlife-friendly plantsLeucanthemum vulgare (Ox-eye daisy)Plantago (Plantain)Lychnis flos cuculi (Ragged robin)Dipsacus fullonum (Teasel)Buddleja davidii,'Black Knight' (Butterfly bush)Digitalis grandiflora (Foxglove)Campanula rotundifolia (Harebell)Eupatorium purpureum