Violets at Snoxhall, Cranleigh. © Photo by Mark Matthews We hear a lot about ‘immersing’ ourselves in nature, noticing the sights and sounds of spring. But ...

Spring is on the way. When I drew the curtains a couple of weeks ago, a groggy ladybird fell onto the windowsill. Although most ladybirds hibernate outside, I ...

Can these hedgehogs survive in our fast moving world? I have a copy of a sale brochure produced for A B Johnson, a local developer in the early 1920s – ...

Isatis tinctoria The writers of Genesis (2.20) understood the importance of names, and they have the newly-created Adam naming everything round him. ...

Volunteers working on Beryl Harvey pond. Humans have always imbued the world around them with meaning. The natural world is not just itself, but becomes a ...

Ancient woodland is an ecosystem – and recent research has shown that trees live and thrive in communities. They are able to communicate through a variety of ...

Tree Photo courtesy of Andy Bamford The French philosopher, Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed that animals were automata. Just fleshy robots with all ...

Relationships With Nature - By Miki Marks Anthropologists call them ‘The Creation Myths’ – the stories that all peoples tell themselves about who they are ...

Despite the cancellation of the regional South & South East in Bloom Awards this year, the Cranleigh in Bloom team remained as active as possible during ...

Are you feeling weedy? My grandmother would ask this if she thought I looked wane and feeble. An odd expression, as in my experience weeds don’t tend to ...