Awesome orchards
Julie explores the folklore surrounding apples and orchards...
Julie explores the folklore surrounding apples and orchards...
Enjoy a spring walk around Hipton Hill Orchards, a site managed by The Vale Landscape Trust.
A visit to a traditional orchard reveals gnarled old trunks of fruit and nut trees bursting with blossoms and young leaves in springtime, with wildflowers and insects populating summer’s long…
Heather helps wildlife on her patch by creating a mini-orchard...
Orchids are starting to get their feet in the ground as part of a long-term meadow restoration project near Castlemorton.
The rose-red breast, large black cap and thick bill make the bullfinch easy to identify. A plump-looking bird of woodlands, hedgerows and orchards, it also frequents gardens.
The Crab apple is familiar as a small tree that produces yellow-green, rounded fruit that is used for making jellies and wines. It can be found in woods and hedges, as well as in cultivated…
The Noble chafer is a rare and beautiful metallic-green beetle that can be found in traditional orchards. It is on the wing over summer, feeding on umbellifers. The larvae live in the decaying…
Enjoy a stroll and learn about wildlife on the hay meadow at Hipton Hill Orchards.
The lesser spotted woodpecker is the smallest of the UK's woodpeckers. Listen out for its drumming, which is quieter than that of the great spotted woodpecker, in woodland, parks , orchards…
Beautiful reserve consisting of old valley meadows, woodland & orchard.