How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
June is a wonderful month for butterflies. As the summer days warm up, butterflies are emerging and taking to the wing. From dappled wooded dells, flowering back gardens and sun-drenched dry…
This marvellous wildflower meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and has been extended in 2018 thanks to a generous legacy.
The Trust has been awarded the Enterprise Award at the annual Pride of Stevenage Awards for its work to secure the future of Astonbury Wood, providing a wildlife haven for the local community to…
One of Britain’s largest barbastelle bat populations found near St Paul’s Walden just outside Stevenage.
This year’s Wild About Gardens campaign, run jointly by The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), is calling on gardeners to get growing to help the UK’s falling numbers of…
Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden.
The best plants for bumblebees! Bees are important pollinating insects, but they are under threat. You can help them by planting bumblebee-friendly flowers.
New audit reveals that a fantastic 101 new wildflower meadows have been created or restored since the Coronation Meadows project began a decade ago.
One of our most common butterflies, the meadow brown can be spotted on grasslands, and in gardens and parks, often in large numbers. There are four subspecies of meadow brown.
Meadow buttercup is a tall and stately buttercup, with buttery-yellow flowers that pepper meadows, pastures, gardens and parks with little drops of sunshine.
Meadow crane's-bill has striking violet flowers that pepper hay meadows, verges and grasslands with colour in summer. It is also a popular choice for gardeners and attracts a wide variety of…