Invasion of the body snatchers

Adrian Thomas pieces together the garden ecosystem

One animal’s loss is a gain for hungry creatures with a taste for decay

Somewhere in the amazonian understorey, beneath a great forest canopy, a cricket leaps on to the stem of a shrub. It’s the last leap it will ever make. It never gets to flex its legs again. It’s stuck

A detail from “Dynamism of a Soccer Player” ...

How dead plants and animals decay, and how living organisms rely on this natural process to survive

Around 35 years ago, I walked into Barnsdale Gardens as a trained but young gardener who probably thought he knew more than he really did! Anyway, that day changed everything for me. My new boss was G