Sadly not! Me thinks that recent change to legislation and government ideology has created quite a bit of uncertainty and so less focus on training by and large this year :(

Hi Alex

Was this with practical ecology? If so, it may be that we have just today decided that demand was too low and have had to cancel! :(

They’re small in stature compared to most cultivated plants, while the outer tepals are paler than the trumpet, forward-facing and often a smidgen twisted :)

A reliable indicator of truly ancient habitats - today marks the first time I’ve ever seen properly wild daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus subsp pseudonarcissus)!

This huge population was in a beautiful riparian ancient woodland in Cheshire and it’s made my whole month! 😍🌱

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What Hoylake has now is a biodiversity hotspot here to stay filled with >250 species of wild plant, Endangered natterjack toads & much so more.

Thank you to everyone who has helped fight to keep this special place over these years - I can’t tell you how appreciated you are 🌱❤️

It’s been one hell of a battle over the past 6 years. We started with Natural England consenting to widespread herbicide use across a SSSI ending in 2019 (left). From there, proposals shifted from removing all vegetated areas, down to 40%, then 10%, then 5%, and finally to this.

🚨Hoylake beach update🚨

After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.

Meanwhile you’re arguing that restoration of an ancient woodland is something to reconsider.

There was nothing indecent in what I said. It is lunacy, and the fact that comments consistently ignore objective reality is testament to a lack of education.

Hear hear! 👏

And what exactly is ideological here? It sounds to me as though you’re upset over the openness of WT to discuss an inconvenient truth.

It sounds to me as though an education is what’s missing from those who work in forestry on this thread. Perhaps you ought to be speaking to them! 😊🌱

Fantastic work @wtscotsocial.bsky.social!! 😍🌱👏👏👏

The number of species plantations support is dwarved by the number which are supported by semi-natural habitats. To conclude anything less is only evidence of ignorance in the extreme.

You can disagree all you like. It doesn’t change the fact that afforestation accounts for 9% blanket bog loss, c20% loss of raised bog, 39% of existing ancient woodland loss (PAWS), the list is endless…

These are not only nationally, but frequently globally threatened habitats.

Translation: please don’t communicate objective facts about non-native conifer plantation in case the public realise the invonvenient truth 👏🌱

Thank you @wtscotsocial.bsky.social for educating!! It’s long overdue folks realise the damage non-native conifers do to ancient woods, alongside many of our other globally important habitats.

Please ignore the lunacy from the uneducated forester brigade 🌱❤️

You’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

Non-natives objectively support substantially less wildlife (take a gander on the BRC database cor insects and their food plants). Meanwhile, non-native conifers actively chemically modify soils and extirpate species. The world isn’t centred around squirrels.

Probably because it is an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain

Really disappointed to see this sort of deeply ignorant commentary from an industry that continues to decimate some of our most important habitats left in Britain TBH

Tis indeedy!!!!

I believe it does! Not been to see it for a while though

Over 400 acorns sown so far, collected from veteran oaks nearby, with lots more to go!

English oak (Quercus robur) supports >2,500 species, making it one of Britain’s most important trees for biodiversity — yet it’s far less common than it should be in Liverpool 🌱❤️

Absolutely the moon!

Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut Lancs Wildlife Trust reserve.

Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

Absolutely the moon!

Endangered dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) typically clings on in scraps of ancient grassland, but today we reintroduced 70+ plants I grew over summer onto this beaut @Lancswildlife reserve.

Huge thanks to Stephen Cartwright & all who helped! 🌱❤️

A major peat-former on fens and transition mires, bottle sedge (Carex rostrata) was all but extinct in Greater Manchester…

Having been growing an absolute tonne of this beaut all summer, today was the day it was planted out in this recovering @Lancswildlife reserve 😍🌱

Beautiful chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) on a veteran oak by me in Liverpool today 😍

First time ever seeing this absolute stunnerrr in Cumbria today - few-flowered sedge (Carex pauciflora)!

A specialist of blanket mires and poor fens, this lil beastie can be found at <15 places in England where it’s red-listed Near-Threatened 🌱❤️