It's about time I shared progress on the RSPB feature garden we're preparing for Gardeners World Live this June at the NEC.

I quickly need to explain that it isn't one of those big budget show gardens that get all the attention. But each year, on a shoestring budget, we like to try our best to put on a good show in a big indoor garden.

Well, my design, which is all about celebrating the diversity of nature on RSPB nature reserves, got accepted by RHS, so preparations have been under way since Christmas.

Right now, my garden is crammed with plants in pots for the woodland part of the garden - Red Campion and Dame's Violet and Garlic Mustard.

And I have large trays of more woodland plants, with Primroses and Woodruff...

And there are seedlings on the go in every corner of the house (and not without causing a few domestic ripples!).

I just hope I've timed it all right.

Then up in Cambridgeshire the team of RSPB volunteers are doing the clever construction stuff for me, pulling together the complex scaffolding around which everything from Ynis Hir to Bempton Cliffs to Sumatra will sit:

And up at the RSPB's dedicated wildlife garden at Flatford in Suffolk, Shirley Boyle and her volunteer team are pulling together beds of wonderful garden flowers.

So far, so good, and I'm hoping it will all look great and show that wildlife and gardening really do go hand in hand. And more than anything I hope to see many of you there too.