Water, water everywhere

With returning swifts screaming across the rooftop and golden buttercup pollen gilding his Wellingtons as he strides across the cow meadow, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the many pleasures of May

The surface may look calm, but even the smallest pond is both a home and a haven for an amazing variety of flora and fauna

Water is an essential element of the garden – cooling, soothing, reflecting and animating – as significant as planting or a place to sit. It works simultaneously on ecological, sensory, aesthetic and

Our waterways are sick – can thinking about them as living beings breathe new life into the campaign to save them?

Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside

I t’s the summer solstice, and the mountains ...