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

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EMBRACE THE SEASON BY HUNKERING DOWN WITH A BOOK DEVOTED TO THE WONDERS OF WINTER

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ Forgive me please because I have, in my youth, been a bit sneery about mahonias. I recognise that this was a mistake as they have an awful lot in their favour: colour at a

The past two years have provided areas of the UK, sometimes as far south as Cornwall, opportunities to enjoy the incredible show of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, a sight usually only experi