a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17

one of my favourite occasional visitors to our garden, looking rather goony today, with a very striking black moustache.

the first marsh marigold (one flower in a sea of green) and the first greater stitchwort appear by the side of the Inny. We record these fi...

the beautiful flower of magnolia stellata, easily blighted by late frosts but bursting out now as the ground warms up. A native of Japan but...

meanwhile, rising above all this colourful confusion and doing its best to look like a drab brown twig is this indolent slow worm warming up...

green alkanet is a handsome plant with a vivid blue flower. The naming of the plant seems to suggest some degree of colour confusion; the na...

Duchy College, on a sunny Sunday morning after a very wet and windy Saturday. Unfortunately Spot has taken to chasing horses; they do not li...