CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  This spring was notable for an early influx of migrant painted lady butterflies that arrived here on warm southerly winds, raising hopes t...

  St. Brandon’s , at Brancepeth, County Durham, is a shining example of the way in which an ancient churchyard can be managed for the benefi...

  Bistort  Polygonum bistorta , flowering in damp hollows in an old hay meadow at Wolsingham in Weardale, on a route that I often take on on...

  This very attractive little flower is meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata . It’s a species of meadows and pastures and it has been in con...

  Magpie having a bad-feather day. We’ve had a couple of dismal days recently, with incessant heavy rain from dawn to dusk, and the magpie f...