Blooming in Cricklepit Garden
Welcome to the latest blog by the Devon Wildlife Trust's volunteer Cricklepit Garden Group who look after the RHS award winning wildlife garden at the Trust's headquarters at Cricklepit…
Welcome to the latest blog by the Devon Wildlife Trust's volunteer Cricklepit Garden Group who look after the RHS award winning wildlife garden at the Trust's headquarters at Cricklepit…
The sight of trees turning golden-brown and the sound of fallen leaves underfoot is something usually associated with October and November. Yet in Devon/the South West autumn seems to have arrived…
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…