Country diary : The ‘queen of trees’ is holding a secret / Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Eggesford Forest, Devon: I thought I was alone in admiring a towering beech in the chilly wood, but I was not I breathe in the bluebells as a blackcap sings. At the crescendo, a flash of yellow breaks up the blue – a brimstone butterfly flies up to my face, then moves back, approaches, then (…)