Glorious grasslands
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
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Girton Grasslands
This link will open on the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust website.
The grasslands have unique properties, enabling them to support a specific range of common and rare wildflowers, as well as invertebrates, wading birds and mammals.
BES1: Species and Habitats (including habitat classification) with Brian Eversham
This link will open on the WildlifeBCN website.
An introduction to basic ecology and habitats
Grey Hill Grasslands
This link will open on the Scottish Wildlife Trust website.
A site of unusual geology and associated flora
Grassland
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…
Grassland wildflowers & bioblitz
This link will open on the Somerset Wildlife Trust website.
Summer wildflower identification of grasslands including sampling methods and recording.
Knapdale Habitats Partnership Area
This link will open on the Scottish Wildlife Trust website.
Scotland
Wild Isles: Wiltshire’s wild grasslands
Here, Eleanor Dodson, digital marketing & communications officer from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust shares more of the wonderful wildlife that can be found at this great spot!
Swindon Forest Meadows
Swindon Forest meadows project aims to create, restore, enhance and better manage grasslands and associated habitats on land along the river Ray, covering approximately 170 hectares and focused on sites within a matrix of woodland plantings delivered by the Great Western Community Forest.
Sands Meadows
This link will open on the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust website.
These three meadows contain a diverse range of habitats from ridge and furrow grassland to wet carr woodland.
Waxing lyrical about our beautiful habitats
At a time where our connection to nature is waning every day, but our fears for our natural world increase with every news report, art can be a wonderful medium. This September, 26 Writers are…
Calaminarian grassland
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…