CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  This has been the best autumn for waxcap toadstools that I can recall here in County Durham. This very mild, and lately very wet, November...

These fine specimens of parasol mushroom Macrolepiota procera are currently at their best in Auckland Park, Bishop Auckland. A common spec...

Some more pictures of the wonderful Spanish chestnuts Castanea sativa in Auckland Park, Bishop Auckland, County Durham that were described...

Auckland Park, in Bishop Auckland in County Durham, has a fine collection of venerable trees with beautiful bark patterns.  Hawthorn...

The undisturbed grassland in glades in the hawthorn scrub in Auckland Castle Park, at Bishop Auckland in Co. Durham, is home to an astonishi...

Auckland park, in Bishop Auckland, has an interesting collection of old trees and these venerable sweet chestnuts are amongst the finest. ...

A while back I posted about threats to the future of the Bishop of Durham's deer park at Auckland Park, in Bishop Auckland in Count...