CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 Teesdale is a favourite destination for botanists in spring, principally because it is home to the stunning blue flowers of spring gentian ...

  A pair of wolf spiders courting in the garden, with the male (in the foreground) frantically signalling his amorous intentions to her wit...

 Every year in late spring the blackcurrant bushes in my garden are plagued by aphids that multiply unnoticed under the leaves, until they b...