Draycote Meadows
Picturesque traditional hay meadows and wildflowers
Picturesque traditional hay meadows and wildflowers
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…
Thanks to Ruth for this lovely poem celebrating Tasker's Meadow and in memory of her cousin, Andy Tasker, our former CEO.
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…
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…
Species-rich meadows in a magnificent setting
Rich, old, traditional meadows with a stream running through it.
Wetland and meadows within the floodplain of the River Anker with a wide range of butterflies and dragonflies
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