The latest from Carol's beautiful cottage garden… plus her diary for the week!

Karen Youngs encounters a couple of bachelors looking for love as the season shifts into spring

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

I’d just dropped Sarah off at a small railway station in Scotland and, after several weeks travelling together, I was on my own again. She was heading home to Cornwall, leaving me free to devote time

Glastonbury, in the Somerset Levels, might bring to mind crystal healing and ley lines, but away from the town wildlife flourishes. Our campsite was perfectly placed, close to both the RSPB’s Ham Wall

An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey