Woodland
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
After the long dreary winter, the first blooms of spring are just what we need to brighten things up. There are no better places to head for flowers at this time of year than our woodlands, as the…
A guided walk around Piercefield Woods to look at the spring flora
The hart's-tongue fern is a hardy fern of damp, shady places in woodlands. It also makes a good garden fern. It has simple, tongue-shaped, glossy, green leaves that have orange spores on…
Deep in the Wye Valley there is the most idyllic spot, a little patch carved out of the ancient woodland and heathland fragments which people have managed for centuries.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
The secretive woodlark can be hard to spot. It nests on the ground on our southern heathlands and uses scattered trees and woodland edges for lookout posts.
During a six week trial, this natural approach aims to tame bracken's smothering impact, offering a promising alternative to labour-intensive control methods.
First impressions of this book were how eye catching the photographs are, with a number of pictures capturing birds in poses not often seen.