CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Three o’clock on a freezing November afternoon. In a few minutes the sun will sink below the hedge and the garden will be plunged into deep ...

  You've got to love a plant whose Latin generic name is  Silybum , more prosaically milk thistle  Silybum marianum . I’d never seen it ...

  This a Douglas fir  Pseudotsuga menziesii  cone, easily recognisable by the papery bracts, resembling the hind legs and tail of a mouse, a...