Make Your Own Wildflower Meadow
Chelsie Phillips from Wild Landscapes tells us how to make our own wildflower meadow!
Chelsie Phillips from Wild Landscapes tells us how to make our own wildflower meadow!
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
A mosaic of three lakes, two brooks, ponds and wetland scrapes linked together by woodland and meadows.
These three hay meadows in Minety with countless wildflowers form a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of their long history of traditional farming.
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.…
Plant wildflower with seed bombs!
Brian from Lockeridge has transformed a three-acre field into a wildflower meadow.
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…
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,…