CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Wild cherries Prunus avium have been ripening this week in Weardale. I've tasted quite a lot of wild cherries over the years and most ...

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 ...

I was passing some wild cherry trees in Weardale this afternoon and noticed this ball of solid...

The long, narrow gorge spanned by Egglestone's Abbey Bridge bridge provides one the most picturesque viewing points on the River Tees ...

Unless they're deliberately cultivated in an arboretum, most trees never get the chance to spread their limbs and assume their natural s...

Sloe (blackthorn) blossom is produced before any leaves appear, often in such profusion that whole hedgerows can look as though they're...

The grey-brown bark of alder Alnus glutinosa isn't particular distinctive - unlike the wood within. Freshly-felled alder wood turns ...