Buddleia and butterflies are a wildlife match made in heaven but there are a host of other ways plants and animals interact - and now is your chance to share similar stories of what works well for wildlife in our gardens.
When you watch wildlife in your back garden, on your roof terrace, balcony or window box, what's your favourite plant for attracting wild creatures? What creature does it attract? And what do they use the plant for?
Wild About Gardens, a major project between the Royal Horticultural Society and the Wildlife Trusts, is calling on everyone to help build a picture in a nationwide survey, the Wild About Gardens Wildly Attractive Survey 2007, and help investigate attraction between species.
The online questionnaire, which runs until June 21, asks people to declare their favourite plant for attracting wildlife in spring and which animals they have spotted on it. Anyone can take part by completing the survey at www.wildaboutgardens.org.
Wildlife Trusts' gardening for wildlife project officer Morag Shuaib said: "My small garden has been busy with all kinds of creatures. The star of the show has to be the clematis montana. It has been awash with flowers A pair of nesting blackbirds have found a place to raise a family."
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