Wildflower meadows
It’s peak season to enjoy a spectacular summertime spread of shimmering colour as it blazes across the wildflower meadows, where you find them in Yorkshire.
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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…
Community Habitat Creation Days
A series of recent Community Habitat Creation Days have seen individuals, families and community groups in Hull coming together to make a difference for nature across the city.
Lowland heath
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…
Lowland fen
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…
What is meant by ecological succession?
South Reserves Assistant, Katie Baker, talks us through ecological succession and why it is important for Reserve Managers, in order to maintain precious habitats.
Lowland calcareous grassland
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…
Making Meadows in Molescroft
Molescroft Wildlife Network are a group of residents who have come together to take action to improve green spaces within their local area. Within the last year they have recruited new members,…
Lowland dry acid grassland
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
Cayton & Flixton Carrs Lowland Peat Project
The Local Investment in Natural Capital (LINC) Lowland Peat Pilot Project saw the development of an exciting project on Cayton & Flixton Carrs
Kippax Meadows Nature Reserve
If you’re out walking in the Lower Aire Valley, pay a visit to Kippax Meadows, an accessible reserve with great potential and already home to a number of uncommon plants.
Lowland dry oak and birch wood
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.…