Nature

St George’s mushroom is in season! This tasty mushroom may be hard to find but when you do find it it’s well worth the effort of searching. Unlike most edible mushrooms that are [...]

A Great British Wildlife and Environment Map dropped into my letter box recently and the creator, Marvellous Maps, have asked me to review it. It was kind of them to ask me to do this and send me [...]

If you’ve wondered how to encourage garden butterflies then read on! When walking both the South West Coastal Footpath and the Pembrokeshire Coastal Footpath I was walking among clouds of [...]

  I’ve been fortunate in visiting South Africa many times but still the sight of the Namakwaland Desert blooming eluded me. The Northern Cape, close to the border with southern Namibia, is [...]

Cape fynbos is found only at the southern-most tip of that great continent Africa! Fynbos literally translated from Afrikaans means ‘fine bush’. It’s an area of extraordinary plant diversity and [...]

Brazilian plants are some of the most exciting on the planet! Currently all eyes on that fantastic city Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Games being held there in 2016. I thought that I’d share [...]

Introduction I’ve just returned from a few weeks break in Brazil. I spent much of my trip looking at spectacular wildlife such as jaguar, giant otter and fabulous bird life! During those ventures [...]

Chillingham Wild Cattle are fascinating rare wild things! I recently saw these in England. I’ve seen other wild cattle before but those were in more exotic places. The Chillingham Wild [...]