CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Some common annual wild flowers that flourish along field margins, in the few weeks between a cereal crop harvest and the arrival of the p...

Nearly forty years ago, when I worked in the Agricultural Research Service, I visited a farm in Shropshire where I noticed the blue fo...

Remember those rotating globes of the world that used to be in every school classroom? I recall having a miniature version given to me as...

This scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis plant was growing on the edge of some fields on the seashore at Low Newton in Northumberland. You...