Blog: Meadows

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A wildflower meadow on a farm

A Wilder Farm Project

Orchards, ponds, trees and bees reveal the joys of habitat creation on a local sheep farm.

A wildflower meadow beneath a cloudy sky, with a row of trees in the distance. The meadow is filled with colourful flowers and green grasses. In the foreground are two tall, pink towers of common spotted orchid flowers. A black and white marbled white butterfly rests on one

Glorious grasslands

A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.

A female blackbird staling through the long grass of a lawn, with a worm in her beak

Lions of the lawn

Discover some of the predators stalking through your garden’s grassland.

Coombe Bissett

Wild Isles: Wiltshire’s wild grasslands

Here, Eleanor Dodson, Digital Marketing & Communications Officer from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust shares more of the wonderful wildlife that can be found at this great spot!

Sunrise at Blakehill

Why do we cut our meadows?

Across all our hay meadow sites in North Wiltshire, July was hay cutting time. Read our blog to find out why we do this.

Morgan's Hill

Fieldwork at Morgan's Hill

Young Ambassador Anna Cooper tells us about her fieldwork at Morgan's Hill nature reserve.

Volunters Wiltshire

Planting Hope

Working towards the long-term recovery of the rare marsh fritillary butterfly.