CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Chasmophytes are specialised plants that colonise crevices in bare rock faces - ivy-leaved toadflax is a notable example, that even produ...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about the dog violet Viola riviniana , one of the earliest woodland plants...

Lesser celandine Coltsfoot Primrose D...

Last autumn I posted some pictures of a walk up through Slitt Woods in Weardale, following the course of Middlehope Burn upstream. These pi...

The landslips on the beach at Hawthorn Hive on the Durham coast (above) have a fascinating limestone flora, where the shelter of the cl...