CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  I sowed nasturtium ( Tropaeolum majus ) seeds this spring, partly for the flowers but also because I was hoping that large white butterfli...

  Poor photo (heavily cropped, taken with an old phone in deep shade) but this appears to be a queen wasp mating with drones. They all flew ...

  Wild flowers have bloomed early and flowered quickly in this year's summer heatwaves. The barley harvest has already begun and grassla...

  Wild cherries Prunus avium have been ripening this week in Weardale. I've tasted quite a lot of wild cherries over the years and most ...

These strange white sheaths around the stems of grasses are the spore-producing tissue of the fungus known as choke Epichloe typhina . It...