Ring-dove beauteous!

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

B ecause it’s the school summer holidays, it’s ...

Patrick Galbraith calls for a bit less tinkering around the hedges

Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle

The skills your horse learns on the hunting field can equip him for a surprising array of summer disciplines, finds Tessa Waugh

IT was inevitable that he was going to be fascinated by trees, for he was born ‘Paul Wood’ and grew up in a house in Dover that backed on to a forest. But no one could have predicted the lengths that