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For 12 years from 1985 to 1997 we had a highly successful award-winning butterfly/wildlife garden in Derbyshire. It boasted 19 species breeding on site, including the rare White-letter Hairstreak (right), plus a few occasional species and a variety of day-flying moths. Since July 1997 we have lived in the Lincolnshire Fens - the habitat could not be more different: flat, with mile after mile of arable farmland, and very lacking in trees and hedgerows. It was initially very uninspiring, but we had researched the area a few years prior to moving over and were aware that the large network of dykes were quite rich in butterflies, courtesy of their wild, sheltered, flowery banks that were largely left alone (below). The local branch of the Butterfly Conservation society was very surprised when we submitted our records - they had more or less written this area off as inhospitable to most wildlife, especially butterflies. So, when we moved over, we set ourselves an even bigger challenge than before.