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Perfect weather yields bumper cereal harvest for British farmers

5 Sep 2014: Long sunny spells after a mild winter and early spring delivers a bounty of wheat, barley and oats
Eccentric memories and summer snow

3 Sep 2014: Letters: If you need any additional support for your and John Arlott’s contention that it snowed at Lord’s on 2 June 1975, you are welcome to my eccentric but truthful memory that it also snowed in Northumberland on that day
Bringing in the harvest yesterday’s way

2 Sep 2014: Country diary: Haselbury Plucknett, South Somerset: The binder’s natural element would have been a landscape of homely shapes – sheaves, stooks, handmade hayricks – not black plastic parcels
A dramatic encounter with an elephant hawk-moth caterpillar

1 Sep 2014: Country diary: Blackwater Carr, Norfolk: This animal will soon wander off and wrap itself in the hardened case of its pupa
Are you a summer person? Because the autumn people are already winning

1 Sep 2014: Emma Brockes: Good riddance to the sunny, lazy season. You know exactly what you’re going to get with a rainy, productive day
From coniferous plantation to open forest landscape

30 Aug 2014: Country diary: Foxbury, New Forest: An area of broadleaf woodland enthusiastically planted by volunteers is fenced off to give the saplings a chance to survive the onslaught of deer
Why grown-ups can't enjoy summer

29 Aug 2014: Alex Leo: When I was a kid, summers were a time of wonder. Now we just live through them in daylight-free cubicles
Ravens and raptors revel over the South Downs

29 Aug 2014: Country diary: Wepham Down, West Sussex: Six black birds – with broad wings, heavy bills and rounded, black, diamond-shaped tails – climb into the sky
Golden asters lead a cavalcade of rare and beautiful plants

28 Aug 2014: Country diary: Berry Head, Devon: I am not sure what to make of this perfect moth, a shard of oat-coloured wing, that is eating the headland’s rarest flower
A romantic, semi-wild garden blooms inside a once-mysterious silhouette

27 Aug 2014: Country diary: Trematon Castle, Lynher Valley: We wonder at the labour of dragging up stone to create the precipitous motte, now planted with fennel and marjoram
Foreshadows of a sunless winter

25 Aug 2014: Country Diary: Lake District: Campers are surprised to learn that the same building with its lime-washed walls and sunny disposition sees no sun from October’s start
Haymakers give the meadow flowers time to seed

25 Aug 2014: Country Diary: Hawthorn Dene, Durham: Although the drifts of cowslips and lady’s bedstraw were just a memory, the field was still spangled with flowers of knapweed, meadowsweet and hemp agrimony
From berries to barley – Britain enjoys a bumper harvest

24 Aug 2014: A mild winter and warm spring have resulted in one of the earliest and most abundant harvests on record
Summer stirs our nomadic past and reawakens our animal selves

24 Aug 2014: Philip Hoare: We operate according to ancient instincts, a freedom that only expresses itself summertime. Why not express it everyday?
The beguiling patterns painted by a river flowing beneath a bridge

22 Aug 2014: Country diary: South Uist: Watching a river’s changing moods, from quietly running to playfully splashing, is infinitely soothing