CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  This summer there have been some spectacular local outbreaks of pocket plum disease, affecting sloes on blackthorn on the Durham coast nea...

Small ermine moths usually feed on bird cherry leaves, hereabouts, enclosing whole shoots and even branches in a silken tent, so they can fe...

From March until July, this has been the best for native tree blossom that I can recall in our part of the North Pennines. It started with ...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary focuses on bird cherry Prunus padus , which has produced an exceptionally fine crop of its beautiful...

Today's Guardian Country Diary describes a walk along a stretch of the banks of the river Wear at Wolsingham in Weardale, along a foot...