The diary starts to get busy now with lots of fun activities to do and events available throughout the UK and as spring progresses more are added. This month this includes some major animal events such as Crufts, the Cheltenham Festival, the Shire Horse Spring Show and more.

It's also the annual British Alpaca Futurity on the 25th and 26th March, at The International Centre, in Telford. Here breeders get to show off their prized British born alpacas in the show ring, but it also showcases the making of products from their fibres.

Alpacas are not native to the UK, coming from Peru, but they are becoming a more common site. There are many places around the UK where you can now get to see them, take a walk with them, get hands on and learn about them. Two such places I've visited are the West Wight Alpacas near Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight and the Llama Park, on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in West Sussex.

From late February to early April Daffodil's will be bursting through the ground, the exact flowering date will depend on the weather. Their bulbs spend most of the year underground and at this time of year they push themselves through the surface to create yellow carpets of colour in parks, woodlands and gardens. The UK's truly wild variety, which can be seen in concentrated pockets in the Lake District and Gloucestershire, as well as other locations, have two-tone yellow flowers, narrow trumpets and forward pointing petals, they also tend to carry their head slightly bowed.

The poet Wordsworth was inspired by those that bloom around the Lake District, and in Kempley Gloucestershire you can meander around a 10 mile footpath to see them in their natural habitat.

Whilst looking around the woodland floor, keep an eye open for the yellow heads of celandines or the white star petal of the wood anemone.