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Floral visitors

Floral visitors

by Chris, 23 October, 2013, 4 comments

Bees are (usually) frequent visitors to our gardens. Gardening catalogues and websites are ‘always’ extolling the virtues of particular flowers / plants in terms of attracting insect visitors to our gardens. These insect visitors are important pollinators – not just for garden flowers, but also for fruit trees and other soft fruits. But is there any evidence about the ‘best flowers’ to plant for insect visitors – other than “opinion and general experience”. Now some research on this has been done by the Department of Apiculture at the University of Sussex. The Department and Professor Ratnieks (which have featured in the woodland blog before) are involved in “The Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health and Well being”. Read more...

Smile Meadow - a forest school

Smile Meadow – a forest school

by Claire, 11 January, 2012, 2 comments

St Mark’s CE Primary School (Sussex) were surprised and delighted to be given the use of a piece of woodland and meadow, only 400 metres from the school. First the whole school visited the Ashdown Forest (under the aegis of the Sussex Wildlife Trust ), Then all the staff took part in an INSET day – also led by the Sussex Wildlife Trust. This gave the staff the opportunity to develop and refine some ideas on how to use the wood and meadow land to enhance children’s learning. Read more...

Wild Flower Guide

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Read our guide to wild flowers of woodland and hedgerow

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