CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 These old Cotoneaster bushes are rooted in fissures in the limestone cliff behind Ashes quarry are Stanhope, in Weardale. Cotoneaster is ...

In summer, when the water level in the upper reaches of the river Wear drops, its gravelly banks are colonised by a natural rock garden of ...

This rather lovely iris, which I think is probably an old Iris spuria  hybrid (not the typical I.spuria which is blue), is growing on the s...

Here's a sight that brightened up a dull day at a bleak spot - a large patch of Lilium pyrenaicum , growing on a road...