CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

These strange white sheaths around the stems of grasses are the spore-producing tissue of the fungus known as choke Epichloe typhina . It...

I had been hoping for a good cherry-plum harvest this summer - the fruits make excellent jam - but the hedgerow trees that I had my eye on a...

  To many gardeners it's a weed; to botanists it's a wild flower; to ecologists it's a ruderal - a primary coloniser of disturbe...

  This summer there have been some spectacular local outbreaks of pocket plum disease, affecting sloes on blackthorn on the Durham coast nea...