Our garden was total chaos last year - we'd only just bought the house, and the place hadn't had any attention for several years! Add to that, most of the plants were fairly uninteresting. So over the winter, we've dug up over half the occupants of the garden, and we've just finished replanting with more interesting things. Can't wait to see if our wisteria takes off...

Top tips - sweet chestnut trees have lovely leaves, and if you get a bagful in early winter from your greengrocer and keep them somewhere cold, they'll germinate quite happily. But don't plant them in the garden unless you've got LOTS of space, cos they grow big. The daft bat next door has a sycamore about 18 inches from the wall of her house which is already about 5-10 years old and growing fast - she's in for a surprise when her insurance spots it!

Oh, and lychees. Apparently lychee seeds are usually infertile and difficult to grow, but I'm currently running on about 1 in 2 germinating! Large-seed ones work best, the small ("bird's-tongue") seeds seem fairly unresponsive. Trouble is, they don't seem to like the potting compost I'm giving them (or maybe it's the hard water), so I've got to experiment with that to find what works best.

Grab.