CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Trees are admirably resilient organisms and it usually takes a lot to kill one outright. They can be broken by gales, struck by lightning, ...

In tropical rainforests strangler fig seeds germinate in the tree canopy and send roots downwards until they reach the soil. Then, as their ...

This must surely be the best year for hedgerow berry crops in recent memory. Last year there were very few berries available when the first ...

These pictures were taken at the end of June, during a walk from St.John's Chapel in Weardale onto the slopes of Chapel Fell, then down...

White poplar Populus alba winter buds are covered in a dense felt of fine white hairs that, from a distance, make the twig look as though ...