Richard Mabey, 73, is in vigorous form and loving life in Norfolk Credit: Photo: Martin Pope I have come to see Mabey, who lives outside Diss and not far from Burston, on the eve of the publication of ...

A pioneer of British nature writing, Richard Mabey has always been years ahead of his time. So how does he think the pandemic will change our relationship to the natural world? After a year of ...

Caroline Sanderson worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The Bookseller’s “Plants are not thought to be sexy. But there’s no reason ...

After reading “Weeds,” Richard Mabey’s loving tribute to the common weed, you may still pull out the herbicide, but you will feel a little more respect for the plants you’re zapping. Mabey, one of ...

The most striking piece of trivia about the Queen beech, a gnarled, knotted old tree in an ancient Hertfordshire woodland, is that it was once a character in a Harry Potter film. The landmark at ...

Peer round the back of the derelict Bridge Inn in Sheffield, and you'll see a fig tree growing out of the bank of the River Don. Its presence is a botanical mystery, since fig seeds require ...

Back in the early 1970s, when Richard Mabey was an energetic young twentysomething, every spare moment of his time would be spent rustling around in hedgerows or coastal mud flats in search of morsels ...