CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Bistort  Polygonum bistorta , flowering in damp hollows in an old hay meadow at Wolsingham in Weardale, on a route that I often take on on...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is all about this very attractive little flower, meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata . It's a sp...

In early June the meadows in the middle part of the dale, around Middleton-in-Teesdale, are full of buttercups , while... ... the ...