Greenham and Crookham Commons
Greenham and Crookham Commons form the largest continuous tract of open heath in Berkshire. It is special for the mix of purple and pink heathers and golden yellow gorse, wildflower-filled…
Greenham and Crookham Commons form the largest continuous tract of open heath in Berkshire. It is special for the mix of purple and pink heathers and golden yellow gorse, wildflower-filled…
Discover more about this unique and globally important habitat.
These wild, open landscapes stretch over large areas and are most often found in uplands. Although slow to awaken in spring, by late summer heathland can be an eye-catching purple haze of heather…
Complex mosaics of wet and dry heath, scrub, bogs, grasslands and open water
Join us for a field trip to Newlyn Downs SSSI where we will learn how to survey for plants indicative of dry and wet heathland.
The carnivorous lifestyle of common butterwort makes this heathland plant a fascinating species. Its leaves excrete a sticky fluid that tempts unsuspecting insects to land and become its prey.
A walk around the popular beach at Trearddur Bay and along the headlands to our hidden nature reserve at Porth Diana. starting from the Sea Shanty café.
Padworth Common nature reserve is a tranquil haven for wildlife with heathland, woodland, ponds and alder-lined gullies.
The largest remaining fragment of the once extensive heathlands of Scotton Common.
A sprawling, spiny evergreen, Common juniper is famous for its traditional role in gin-making. Once common on downland, moorland and coastal heathland, it is now much rarer due to habitat loss.…
Guided walk at East Pit to look for chalk grassland flowers