What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in common? They all contain fractals: Nature’s exquisite, endlessly ...
Piet Oudolf, father of the New Perennial Movement, has dug up his famous double borders at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in Surrey and transformed them. John Hoyland takes a look, ...
The rainforests of Britain, a Cornwall light show, Christmas gardens and more in our Dawn Chorus round-up this morning.
Shy yet bold, furtive yet fearless and fond of nesting in your trousers, the tiny ‘Jenny wren’ has a lusty voice that matches ...
The Carols for Choirs series ‘changed the whole sound of Christmas for everybody who sings,’ says the composer and choral conductor Sir John Rutter. And Sir John should know. He edited the second, ...
Grey and bleak in midwinter, yet purple and exotic come high summer, our heathland is an unloved landscape that has become ...
Harald Altmaier’s photographs of floral tableaux, as colossal in effort as in scale, recall 17th-century Dutch still lifes, ...
Fresh from last season’s power move of sinking boats in the Mediterranean sea, it would appear that this year orcas are ...
The Montenotte Hotel, on a hillside above the Irish city of Cork, has unveiled a group of nine luxury, woodland cabins.
The culinary writer and broadcaster, who turns 90 next year, tells Hetty Lintell about three objects she can't live without.
If you were thinking of moving to Winchester this time last year but didn't do anything about it, you might be left kicking ...
A lack of funding and expertise is having a detrimental effect on our listed heritage. To survive, these buildings need to ...