With suitable planting, even the smallest garden can attract birds, bees and butterflies.

You need not abandon your herbaceous borders, however if you wish to attract wild creatures it calls for a fairly relaxed attitude to some areas of the garden.

Allowing leaf litter and seed heads to remain, leaving a patch to naturalise, making piles of stones and logs will all help to supply food and create habitats.

Left: drawing for a wildlife garden I recently designed for a local client with photographs below.