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Grasslands in Worcestershire
Dipping a toe into grasslands
Romy discovers just how great (and overlooked) grasslands are...
Grassland
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
Worcestershire's butterflies
Learn all about Worcestershire's butterflies with an evening talk from John Tilt.
Worcestershire's Hedgehogs
Calaminarian grassland
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Saving Worcestershire's heathlands
Saving Worcestershire's heathlands
Beccy introduces herself and this amazing heathland restoration project...
Upland calcareous grassland
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Lowland calcareous grassland
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Lowland dry acid grassland
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.