CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  This year the branches of the Peasgood’s Nonsuch apple are in danger of snapping under the weight of fruit. The variety was originally rai...

  Welsh poppy Meconopsis cambrica is simultaneously a native and an alien wild flower in Britain. As a component of the Arctic-alpine flora...

 Apples, pears and plums are ripening faster than we can eat them, so the bird table has been taken over by butterflies feeding on the ferme...