I'm blogging early because I'm hitting the M40 up to the NEC for BBC Gardeners World Live - and we hope we'll see lots of you there.

It's on from Thursday to Sunday, and as usual the RSPB Events Team with their amazing volunteers have unleashed their creative juices on an RSPB Feature Garden in the main hall.

I've just been sent a sneak preview, and it looks like April and her team has created a Wheelbarrow Waterfall (look, there's water flowing from one to the other! Way beyond my engineering skills).

There are features throughout the garden showing how to do some of the simple things to Give Nature a Home, such as the hole to cut for a Hedgehog Highway

There are some things I don't know what they are, such as these coloured nestboxes, but I'm sure all will become clear...

But I do know what the Bloomin' Gorgeous bench is - it's a seat made of recycled pallets to come and take your hashtagged selfies to show that you yourself are bloomin' gorgeous, which we know you are!


I'm going to be on and around the stand over the weekend, and on the Interview Stage being interviewed by Jim Buttress (in a marquee in the gardens area of the Show) on Friday ((3.30pm), Saturday (2.30pm) and Sunday (11am).

And I'll also be at the Green Connections Garden, one of the outdoor Show Gardens, where Alex Stevenson and Jean Wardrop - the Gardening Ladies - have designed a garden showing how small urban gardens can be great for nature. They were good enough to come to me for some advice, and we've been delighted to endorse their garden. I just hope they've managed to get it up and finished through the downpours.

If you want to drop by my RSPB wildlife gardening blog, it is updated every Friday, and I'd love to see you there - www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/hfw