Driving through Swaledale’s iconic hay meadows alongside the B6270 between Reeth and Keld you get a sense of the meadows great agricultural importance, providing farmers with food for their livestock during the winter months as well as their ecological importance. Upland hay meadows are characterised by a suite of species including Sweet Vernal-grass, Wood Crane’s-bill,...
Thursday 3rd September 2015, Everton Park Nature Garden SJ352920: Everton Park is one of the city’s precious green lungs, but it has been underused in the past. This has changed and a visitor destination – like Barcelona’s Parc Guell is – has emerged like a phoenix from the ashes of housing policy. These waves of...
Thursday 9th July: Childwall Fields Leaders – Julia Simons & Ami Weir. The Biodiverse Society Team including members of the Liverpool Botanical Society met at the southern entrance (Woolton Road) to Childwall Woods and Fields on a fine summer’s morning. Julia and Ami led us onto Childwall Fields which consist of unimproved neutral grassland on...
The area at Formby Point managed by the National Trust has increased (520 acres) through a gift of the former tobacco waste areas by the British Nicotine Company, the purchase in 1985 of the Larkhill Lane heathland area from Ideal Homes Ltd and the recent purchase of the former agricultural area north of Wicks Lane....