Waking to sunshine

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

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

It’s dawn in a meadow in southern Bavaria. A faint breeze ruffles the grass and whispers through the leaves of the woodland nearby. It seems deserted. Yet look closely – there, in the shadow between b

The stag beetle’s intimidating appearance belies its vulnerability, says Claire Saul, as she discovers what we can do to help them survive

Spring is the time to see the muscular and noble goshawk, usually as elusive as a ghost circling and swooping through the sky

...Continued Watering the greenhouse plants Double the ...