CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

After a bit of a slow start here, the crop of interesting autumn fungi is beginning to improve, no doubt because of recent rain. We found th...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is about the way in which the right combination of habitat factors - light, humidity and shelter from t...

  This strange plant is the Dutch rush Equisetum hyemale  which isn't a rush at all - it's a member of that strange division of the ...