CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  An ash tree Fraxinus excelsior , in the prime of life, undressed and dressed, photographed in April and June, in Teesdale.  Ash is always...

  As winter draws to a close I always look forward to the first hazel catkins, that signal a change in the seasons ......... but then, when ...

Every autumn, as the last leaf falls, I've had good intentions of recording a set of images of the characteristic silhouettes of differe...

Ivy's flowers provide a wonderful nectar and  pollen resource for insects in autumn (see some examples at the bottom of this post) and ...

These flower buds of ash, which usually open about a month before the leaf buds, look like some strang...

When we went walking (or should I say slithering) in the increasingly slushy snow today the snow surfac...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is about an organism that seems certain to benefit from the death of ash trees. More of that later, but...