The best of the season to inspire and admire

Of all the garden minibeasts, few are as misunderstood as this humble creature

The wily fox must be one of the best-known animals in the UK. I am willing to place a wager that there must be less than 100 people in the country who have never heard of a fox before. I conducted a q

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

INTERVIEW

I started talking to dragonflies in India at a place where my husband and I stayed several times in the foothills of the Himalayas. I noticed that dragonflies came and settled in the sunshine on the p