CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 Teesdale is a favourite destination for botanists in spring, principally because it is home to the stunning blue flowers of spring gentian ...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is an account of a walk that follows the river Tees upstream, between Middleton-in-Teesdale and Bowlees...

In early June the meadows in the middle part of the dale, around Middleton-in-Teesdale, are full of buttercups , while... ... the ...

Teesdale is famous for its flora, notably its spring gentians (see earlier post), and after the gentians have faded they are followed by a h...