CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 Almost as soon as the snow melted rosettes of marbled, spoon-shaped leaves of lesser celandine   Ficaria verna have unfurled and lie flat ...

  Saw the first dark-edged bee-flies Bombylius major in the garden at the beginning of this week, feeding on lesser celandine nectar. These...

A second day of New Year Plant Hunting, this time along the banks of the river Wear and along woodland edges and hedges. Nineteen species i...

Teesdale: Goat willow bud scales beginning to lose their grip ........ Ryton Wi...

Lesser celandine Coltsfoot Primrose D...

Any doubts that spring had finally arrived were dispelled yesterday by a honeybee trapped in our greenhouse (and safely liberated) ......

When the frogs return to our garden pond (which they did yesterday) and the first lesser celandine comes into flower...

This is a lesser celandine  Ficaria verna  plant that was growing in our garden, which has a...

The first lesser celandines are coming into flower around here and it's a delight to see their glossy yellow flowers. One of the fascina...