Lowland meadow and pasture
Generally found as part of lowland farms or nature reserves, these small, flower-rich fields are at their best in midsummer when the plethora of flowers and insects is a delight. Tiny reminders of…
Generally found as part of lowland farms or nature reserves, these small, flower-rich fields are at their best in midsummer when the plethora of flowers and insects is a delight. Tiny reminders of…
Heathlands form some of the wildest landscapes in the lowlands, where agriculture and development jostle for space, containing and limiting natural processes. Once considered as waste land of…
Water-logged and thick with reeds and robust tall-herbs or tussocky sedges, fens are evocative reminders of the extensive wet wildlands that once covered far more of the lowlands than they do…
Meadows in the heart of Weobley village which are being managed as traditional hay meadows to increase biodiversity.
Tree planting season has now drawn to a close at our Davies Meadows, Weobley Wildlife Meadows and Sturts North reserves, where earlier in March our volunteers have been busy planting, armed with…
A spring update from Weobley Wildlife Meadows: wildflowers, ponds and planning!
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…
Bartonsham Meadows, on the edge of Hereford City, are to become a 100-acre nature reserve, managed by Herefordshire Wildlife Trust.
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
We took on management of the meadows in March 2023 and are now beginning to restore the site for wildlife and for people.
Gnarled veteran oaks are interspersed with groves of pale, elegant birches, while swathes of bracken and soft tussocks of wavy hair-grass cover ground from which autumn fungi sprout.…