Kate bradbury

Grow a haven for wildlife

Karen Youngs encounters squabbling herons and glimpses an elusive predator on a waterside walk

The garden has given me much joy this year, though it’s not been without its challenges! Especially the weather, with so little rain for long periods. But those two months of drought made little impac

Bathed in burnished hues, a Hertfordshire cottage haven is a marriage of formal and wild planting

there’s something about seeing a bat that makes you shout “bat!” It’s the only way to greet one – on summer nights around the campfire, waiting for the first to start flitting around the treetops, or

Anyone in search of autumn colour this October might consider a trip to Hever Castle & Gardens in Kent, once the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. The 14th-century, double-moated castle, set within 125 a