CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  We've been composting garden and kitchen vegetable waste in 'Dalek' bins like this for decades, but this year was the first ti...

My daughter and her partner have a raised flower bed in their garden near Cambridge, built from old railway sleepers, and yesterday large nu...

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

This black ant, with its lethal-looking jaws outstretched, isn't about to eat the aphid - it's farming it. Th...