Aquarium of Vulcan

The first warm and dry day in what was the wettest April on record gives the opportunity for butterflies to once more forage and fly. Two...

Enjoying the late return of Summer for several cloudless days now, with the temperature touching 27 degrees Celsius, I spotted a R...

When I remember to tend a particular corner of my garden the results can be surprising. Apparently the phrase ' wild strawberries...

He that would exactly discern the shop of a Bees mouth, need observing eyes, and good augmenting glasses; wherein is discoverable one of th...

    Gnomes are hardy creatures and can endure the most severe conditions,  rarely grumbling at the weather no matter how adverse.

Plums are just about ripe now. They are another fond memory of childhood summers spent with my Grandmother. My garden still has the statu...

After a month of overcast, rainy weather, summer and butterflies return! The gaudy and gorgeous peacock Inachis io loves to feed on buddl...

I'm not a very green-fingered person so I was well pleased that at least one seed from the packet flowered!  Poets have often been insp...

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Hydrangea thrive upon chalky soil of which there's plenty throughout the low-laying county of Norfolk. The large hydrangea shrub in my ...

The green woodpecker is a relatively rare bird, at least in urban settings. One rested on a branch in the garden this morning, before zi...

Polygonia c-album or the Comma butterfly. One flitted through the garden this afternoon. So-named because of the distinctive C-shape on it...

The first Red Admiral ( Vanessa Atalanta ) spotted in the garden this morning.  A little early in the season to arrive from their mig...

This posting seems an apt follow-up to the preceding one on smell and the nose. I'm fairly confident that Sir Thomas Browne would have ...

With the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower show on at present, I thought it time to reveal my own installation for the Roy...

A certain sign that the weather's fine. While in the garden the first hot-air balloon of the season floated overhead. I seem to be livin...

With the Vernal Equinox just past, spawn is in the water. Ever curious of the natural world Sir Thomas Browne took a zoologi...