CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

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 ...

Graceful silver birches Betula pendula Sweet chestnut Castanea sativa Hawt...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about hedges - well, about one old, overgrown hedge,  a favourite that has produced a spectacular ...

Despite almost two weeks of freezing temperatures and constant snow, we found these fresh new leaves sprouting from el...

It looks like being a very poor year for brambles up here in Durham but it was a different story down in North East Lincolnshire at th...