Making A Mini-Meadow
Penny and Peter were inspired to create a patch of wilder lawn about fifteen years ago when they first noticed the leaves of a common spotted orchid in the grass at the bottom of their garden. In…
Blog: By Tag
National Meadows Day
In celebration of National Meadows Day, we thought we would share some interesting facts with you on Kent and the nation’s wild meadows.
Authors
- David Urry (1)
- Ashleigh Turner-Dickinson (3)
- Carly Whyborn (6)
- Celia Davies (3)
- Christine Davison (1)
- Conservation Team (2)
- Dr Richard Bloor (1)
- Ed Charles (3)
- Education and Community Engagement (7)
- Evan Bowen-Jones (2)
- Fiona White (1)
- Forest School (7)
- Gordon Miller (31)
- Greg Hitchcock (2)
- Guest Author (3)
- Julia Hunt (3)
- Kent Wildlife Trust (6)
- Lynne and Peter Flower (3)
- Margery Thomas (9)
- Marine Team (1)
- Mary Blackwell (1)
- Maureen Rainey (1)
- Natasha Ruskin (1)
- Paul Hadaway (3)
- Penny and Peter Brook (9)
- Professor Dave Goulson (1)
- Rebecca Lindsay (1)
- Reserves Team (3)
- Rosie Earwaker (1)
- Val Rea (2)
- Vic Hill (14)
- Zoe Stevenson (4)
Topics
- Campaigns (6)
- Community (3)
- Conservation (9)
- Consultancy (2)
- Education (4)
- Forest School (5)
- Health and wellbeing (5)
- Living Landscape (4)
- Living Sea (1)
- Local Wildlife Sites (2)
- Marine (5)
- Nature Reserves (13)
- Projects (8)
- Roadside Nature Reserves (3)
- Things to do (14)
- Volunteering (5)
- Wetlands (1)
- Wild About Gardens (6)
- Wild Species (9)
Tags
- #SaveLodgeHill (1)
- 30 Days Wild (3)
- 365 Days Wild (1)
- Action for Insects (3)
- activities (13)
- advice (4)
- Agriculture (1)
- Agriculture Bill (1)
- appeal (1)
- autumn (3)
- Barn Owls (3)
- beefacts (1)
- Bees (1)
- BeesNeeds (1)
- BeesNeedsWeek (1)
- biodiversity (2)
- Birds (3)
- birdsfoot-trefoil (1)
- birdwatching (1)
- bluebells (2)
- botany (5)
- Bumblebees (1)
- Butterflies (5)
- campaign (5)
- chalk grassland (1)
- children (8)
- Christmas (2)
- climate change (2)
- Climate crisis (2)
- climate emergency (2)
- Coast (2)
- commonknapweed (1)
- community (2)
- competition (2)
- conservation (10)
- dabbling ducks (1)
- Development (2)
- downland (1)
- Ducks (1)
- Eco-Christmas (1)
- eco-living (1)
- education (6)
- energy (1)
- environment (3)
- environmentally friendly (1)
- events (2)
- Every Wild Child (4)
- facts (1)
- Family (6)
- Farming (1)
- Fifth Continent (1)
- Flowers (1)
- Forest School (3)
- Francesca Wilkinson (1)
- garden birds (3)
- gardening (3)
- Gardening for a Wilder Kent (2)
- gardening for wildlife (13)
- Gardens (7)
- Go Wild (1)
- government (1)
- Guardians of the Deep (5)
- habitats (10)
- Health and wellbeing (4)
- heather (2)
- heathland (2)
- heatwave (1)
- hedgehogs (1)
- helpthebees (1)
- Hill at the Heart Project (1)
- history (1)
- hot weather (1)
- Hothfield (6)
- how to help (1)
- insects (4)
- International Women's Day (1)
- IWD (1)
- Living Landscapes (1)
- Lodge Hill (1)
- London to Paris (1)
- MCZ (1)
- meadows (4)
- Minibeasts (2)
- Nashenden (2)
- National Lottery Heritage Fund (3)
- NationalMeadowsDay (1)
- natural history (2)
- Natural solutions (1)
- Nature (3)
- Nature based solutions (1)
- nature recovery (2)
- Nature Recovery Network (3)
- nature reserve (24)
- Nature trail (1)
- nightingales (1)
- Old Park Hill (1)
- Orchid (1)
- Oscars (1)
- outdoor walk (3)
- Owls (1)
- oxeyedaisy (1)
- Painting the Town Green (3)
- people (2)
- Planning (2)
- plants (1)
- Plastic (2)
- Plastic pollution (3)
- Poetry (1)
- Pollinators (3)
- Project (4)
- Queen's Speech (1)
- Reflecting Nature (1)
- Reptiles (1)
- restoration (1)
- Robin (1)
- Romney Marsh (3)
- schools (1)
- Slugs and Snails (1)
- Snow (1)
- species (4)
- Stay Wild (1)
- summer (1)
- sustainability (2)
- sustainable living (2)
- Thanet (1)
- The Wavelength Project (1)
- tips (1)
- top tips (5)
- trees (1)
- Tyland Barn (1)
- Volunteering (14)
- Volunteers' Week (2)
- walks (5)
- Wild About Gardens (11)
- Wild At Home (1)
- wild birds (1)
- Wild Flowers (1)
- wilder Kent (1)
- WildFlowers (2)
- Wildlife (3)
- wildmeadows (1)
- winter (1)
- Woodland (3)
- yellowrattle (1)