SPONSORED BY SWAROVSKI OPTIK
OU WON’T find a bed of delphiniums blue and geraniums red in my garden, but you will find a dormouse. Walk feather-light with me and I will introduce you to my garden’s rarest residents. Just a few days ago I saw my first dormouse of the year. With paws silvered by moonlight, it pulled forward a cluster of ivy berries and began to nibble the nearest as I watched hardly daring to breathe. A sense of excitement never fails to grip me every time I spot this most endearing of our native mammals. Unless your interest in