CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Today's Guardian Country Diary is all about the contents of our garden kitchen waste compost bins. We have been recycling all of the...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about the remarkable range of small invertebrates that live under the flaking bark of old sycamor...

I hadn't really realised what an amazing summer this must be if you happen to be a slug, until we went out for a walk after heavy rain ...

.... a glass half-full of rainwater, that is. I should be sitting in the garden sipping chilled wine now, not watching rain running down ...

If you wake up thirsty in the middle of the night and go into the kitchen in bare feet, to get a drink of water, and find something squi...

Whenever gardeners gather together in spring, sooner or later the conversation comes around to slugs, those destroyers of horticultural drea...