Jeremy Hobson solves more of your pastoral problems

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

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Why did only two sunflowers germinate? Do I leave figs on my tree? Read on…

Stefan Buczacki Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, ...