Hedges, Verges & Waterways
A joint event on ‘Hedges, Verges and Waterways’ with a star- studded cast of local experts.
A joint event on ‘Hedges, Verges and Waterways’ with a star- studded cast of local experts.
Help our Roadside Nature Reserve teams with the important management and surveying of road verges in Kent.
Road verges with a rich limestone flora.
The roadside verges at Copper Hill are protected under Lincolnshire's Protected Roadside Verge Scheme. The adjoining Duke's Covert is an old limestone grassland.
Ancient woodland site beside a small flower-rich field.
The Trust’s farm - on the Nutbrook Trail next to Shipley Country Park is home to many farmland birds, wild flowers including orchids, invertebrates, brown hares and water voles. A great day out to…
Learn about the sedges that adorn Kingcombe’s old droveways and the grasses which make up the botanically diverse meadows.
A scrambling plant, Bush vetch has lilac-blue flowers. It is a member of the pea family and can be seen along woodland edges and roadside verges, and on scrubland and grassland.
Perennial rye-grass is a tufted, vigorous grass of roadside verges, rough pastures and waste ground. It is commonly used in agriculture and for reseeding grasslands.
A scrambling plant, Meadow vetchling has yellow flowers. It is a member of the pea family and can be seen on rough grassland, waste ground and roadside verges.
Hedge mustard is a tall plant with small, yellow flowers atop tough stems. It likes disturbed ground and grows in hedgerows and roadside verges, and on waste ground.