CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

It's been a good year for ladybirds in our garden - here's a selection of the species that have visited so far: ...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary describes encounters with ladybirds in Weardale and Teesdale. Back in the spring it seemed as th...

Recently there has been a lively exchange of comments in the Guardian on a piece by George Monbiot that extols the virtues of native trees ...

At this time of year juvenile spiders begin to set up their snares in our greenhouse and this one wove its fine, tent-like web across the t...