Yet his ground-clearing is always refreshing.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary-art criticism

The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

"We hope the clearing of a lot of bracken and re-seeding of heather will bring back ground-nesting birds as well as more cuckoos, " she added.

BBC: Birdwatcher gave 1922 cuckoo clue