Caught by the fuzz

Learn to capture the beauty of marine life in watercolours with artist Julie Collins

Bringing you some of the gardening news highlights

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff

From material for wreaths to homemade ground beetle refuges and natural plant insulation, there are many uses for this wild plant, as Toby explains