Nature

The Hampstead Heath ponds offer a recipe for the perfect summer afternoon

Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod

Garden flowers are for posies

Packing Claudia the darlings off for “improving” summer activities

Plants, not hobbyists, are best for bees

You can grow without a garden

The wasp may be hated, but you’d be amazed by its intelligence

Save your shrubs with a slug pub, says Hephzibah Anderson

Hephzibah Anderson reveals how RHS Bridgewater illustrates some of the tensions inherent in our newfound appreciation of what remains a highly curated kind of nature

The New Forest today is treated as a playground to be bent to the whims of the visitors, rather than a reserve that must be cared for