Wildflower meadow set to flourish at East Chevington
Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s ‘Catch My Drift’ project at its East Chevington nature reserve, has received a grant of £7,744 from the Ventient Sisters North Steads Windfarm Community Benefit…
Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s ‘Catch My Drift’ project at its East Chevington nature reserve, has received a grant of £7,744 from the Ventient Sisters North Steads Windfarm Community Benefit…
Brush through a wildflower meadow at the height of summer and you'll hear the tiny seeds of yellow-rattle rattling in their brown pods, hence its name.
At night, the pretty, white blooms of white campion produce a heady scent, attracting feeding moths. Look for this wildflower along hedgerows and roadside verges, and on waste ground.
As its name suggests, quaking-grass can be seen quivering or 'quaking' in a breezy, summer wildflower meadow. Its purple-and-green, heart-shaped flower heads hang from delicate stems.…
Northumberland Wildlife Trust is becoming concerned about the number of wildflowers, particularly orchids, being dug up and removed from its reserves along Druridge Bay in recent months.
A notable reserve which contains a small area of calaminarian grassland, influenced by heavy metal pollution in the past, and therefore featuring several interesting species of wildflower.
Rowan loves the fresh smell and sight of the buttercups in the wildflower meadows at Besthorpe. It's a special place because there are precious few spots like this where she can spend time…
Plant wildflower with seed bombs!
In the drama of the open spaces around her, Emily can play the role of a lifetime. She knows the wildlife of the nature reserve as intimately as Yorick knew Hamlet, and with an audience of birds,…
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.
Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing from thick, bushy hedges and field margins studded with…
A rare habitat remarkable for its colourful diversity of wildflowers and abundant birdlife, machair grassland is a feast for the ears and eyes.