The best plants you’ve never heard of this Plant Appreciation Day
Charlotte Dacre, our Ancient Woodland Inventory Officer, shares her top four ancient woodland plants that you’ve likely never heard of…
Charlotte Dacre, our Ancient Woodland Inventory Officer, shares her top four ancient woodland plants that you’ve likely never heard of…
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Anna Cooper explores some of the plants that can be found in our ancient woodlands.
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
A planting event hosted by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust was held at the end of January to kickstart a major tree planting programme at Great Wood.
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.