CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  We witnessed a titanic battle between an unfortunate bumblebee and a female garden spider  Araneus diadematus  that had spun her web on th...

  Oxford ragwort  Senecio squalidus , growing on the wall of Hexham Moot Hall.  A native to the volcanic cinder slopes of Mount Etna in Sici...

  Beautiful but deadly poisonous autumn crocus  Colchicum autumnale , cultivated in a woodland garden near the main car park in Hexham, Nort...