Meadows are wonderful, evolving entities. The first year of any meadow it has a huge array of beautiful annuals for colour, however your subsequent years are always a fantastic surprise as to what you will get. Different flowers will germinate in different years all dependant on the condition of the soil, weather etc.
Nature's Amazing and Beautiful Mimics
James Gillies
Is it a wasp? Is it a bee? Actually, it might be a hoverfly.
Eye in the Sky
The Value of Drone Technology
Conservation on the River Thame
The latest phase
Disregarded Destruction
Wildflower meadows and grasslands
Rewilding
What is it and why should you care?
Hedgerows need work but can be by far the best investment for wildlife you could make on your land...
Wildflower Meadows
Maintenance
Having a wildflower meadow requires very little maintenance throughout the summer months, and in the main you just sit back to enjoy it from May to September...
Japanese Knotweed
Expert Advice
The Victorians' desire to have the most impressive and ostentatious of everything brought many things to Britain. Some of these plants we now wish had stayed in their native soil...
James Gillies, a specialist land manager and countryside steward, explains how biodiversity offsetting is not just for multinationals...