Ian Fraser, talking naturally

It's been a while since I posted another in my sporadic series of favourite botanic gardens, so I thought I'd compensate today with...

As mentioned previously , I've recently returned from a somewhat unexpected visit to Malaysian Borneo, and in that previous posting I p...

1830 was a restive time in western Europe, with one branch of the French monarchy overthrowing another, and southern parts of the United Ne...

It's been pretty bitter round our part of the world of late; at 600 metres above sea level, and at the foot of often snowy mountains, w...