Birch in a bog…or how to spend a warm, sunny October day
Our Ashford Meadows Project Officer, Camilla Blackburn writes about a corporate volunteering day at Hothfield Heathlands.
Our Ashford Meadows Project Officer, Camilla Blackburn writes about a corporate volunteering day at Hothfield Heathlands.
Area Manager Ian Rickards provides updates about what to expect to see at Hothfield Heathlands over October, from scrub removal to volunteer works.
Kent Wildlife Trust Volunteer, Margery Thomas, takes a look at what Hothfield Heathlands Nature Reserve has in store for us this autumn.
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
The yellow, star-like flowers of bog asphodel brighten up our peat bogs, damp heaths and moors in early summer, attracting a range of pollinating insects.
Go Wild with Wilder Holiday Club this October half term!
Kent Wildlife Trust are the leading conservation charity in Kent and the experts when it comes to wildlife and outdoor learning.…
Go Wild with Wilder Holiday Club this October half term!
Kent Wildlife Trust are the leading conservation charity in Kent and the experts when it comes to wildlife and outdoor learning.…
As its name suggests, the birch shieldbug can be found feeding on silver birch, and sometimes hazel, in mixed woodland. Adults hibernate over winter, emerging in spring to lay their eggs.
The birch polypore only grows on Birch trees. This leathery bracket fungus has a rounded, coffee-coloured cap that was once used for sharpening tools, hence its other name: the 'Razorstrop…
A spindly tree of heathland and moorlands, and damp soils, the Downy birch is well known for its paper-thin, white bark. It is so-called for the hairy stalks from which its leaves grow; the Silver…