ICYMI #NationalMeadowsDay was on Saturday & we’re reimagining what meadows can be🌾
The future of gardening means thinking beyond borders. By studying Armenia’s wildflower-rich grasslands, we’re bringing lessons from ancient ecosystems to create thriving meadows at Wakehurst
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And this #NationalMeadowsDay
Just found out it's #NationalMeadowsDay and this feels relevant.
Oops I forgot to hashtag #NationalMeadowsDay
For @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #NationalMeadowsDay I took a group from the ANHSO to enjoy the hay meadows of Milham Ford Nature Park in Oxford. Stunning display & heaving with insects! Collected seed 'cos hay cutting time next week due to drought @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
On #nationalmeadowsday congratulations to Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields on the last 5 years of effort to manage a little part of Bath and do our bit for diversity
On #NationalMeadowsDay
NOT a meadow.
This is pasture (yes yes it’s a matter of semantics but still!)
Created by and for our livestock. Not mown for hay but grazed instead. Grazed hard in the winter, down to its earthy bones.
Then rested so it shivers with life in the summer.
When was the last time you saw a wildflower meadow bursting with so much colour, teeming with 🦋🐝🪲🐛, orchestrated by chirping crickets and breeding birds?
#NationalMeadowsDay
I was wrong, #NationalMeadowsDay is today. So here is some more:
Yellow Rattle
Knapweed
Meadow Vetchling
Hedge Woundwort
Oh how lovely and appropriate that I’ve completed my first grasses ID workshop on #NationalMeadowsDay #grasslands #biodiversity
Happy #NationalMeadowsDay. All these were taken at Ranscombe Farm Nature Reserve on the picturesque North Downs in Kent.
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I’ve wandered through many beautiful meadows in the UK and the NL, but the chalk grasslands of Magdalen Hill down near Winchester truly feel like a #NationalMeadowsday treasure. A symphony of colour and scent, thousands of Marjoram and Gr knapweed painting the landscape in wild, fragrant celebration
Not a meadow #nationalmeadowsday
In our 7th year of conservation work at St Margaret’s Churchyard, West Raynham, Norfolk, great to see such a rich variety of wildflowers now well established #NationalMeadowsDay
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Buzzing with life, meadows are a haven for #wildflowers and pollinators. 🌼
These wild spaces are vital for #biodiversity and bring beauty and balance to our landscapes. 💚
📷 Chris Aldridge
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Wildflower meadow tended by Prestwood Nature's volunteers in Bucks - lots to celebrate and protect #NationalMeadowsDay
Tennessee cone flowers growing in a glade
It's #NationalMeadowsDay - recently I learned about & saw the Tennessee cone flower-restricted to cedar glades (not quite meadows but close) www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/o.... Thought extinct for decades, it is now recovered thanks to @nature.org and others. #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries
For #NationalMeadowsDay here is a piece I wrote a while ago about Meadowsweet, which you may find blooming in our meadows and hedgerows about now;
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2023/07/30/m...
A once-common and abundant plant of grasslands, Dyer’s greenweed (Genista tinctoria) needs help.
For #NationalMeadowsDay, I’ve put a guide together on the propagation, reintroduction and management of this functionally important & imperilled beastie: nwrpi.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/...
Today is #NationalMeadowsDay. Did you know we’ve spent the last 20 years increasing meadow areas in our parks and open spaces?
Watch this short video to see how our grassland meadows are maintained.
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This #NationalMeadowsDay, we’re backing @Plantlife in their urgent call to protect what’s left of our irreplaceable meadows. But we need your help!
These vital ecosystems cannot simply be recreated.
📖 Learn about Irreplaceable Habitats and join us here:
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An English hay meadow with long grass and wildflowers.
A hay meadow with yellow buttercups and purple self-heal flowers.
#NationalMeadowsDay. Here’s a couple of photos of my little #hayfield with a mixture of flowers and grasses available for #pollinators and #wildlife.
Episode 1️⃣2️⃣ of our podcast is here!🎧
In celebration of #NationalMeadowsDay TODAY, we visited our Bowber Head Farm reserve, home to one of the rarest wildlife habitats in #Cumbria: northern upland hay meadows.🌺
Listen now ⬇️
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/podcasts#latest
To celebrate #NationalMeadowsDay here’s a whole year in our meadow in two minutes. Meadows are crucible’s of life. We need to protect those we have left and create many more @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Text title reads ‘360 football pitches of wildflower habitat restored in UK.’ Image behind shows a bumblebee feeding on a comfrey flower.
Celebrating a WILD(flower) success on #NationalMeadowsDay 🌼
Together with @Reckitt, we've restored approx. 400 football fields worth of wildflower habitat across the UK.
The win? We're giving life back to these crucial habitats and letting nature bloom. 💚
Snakes-head fritillaries are a special joy with floodplain meadows & one we celebrated with an art project this week in Cricklade led by Alice Walker. On #NationalMeadowsDay lets commit to greater protection and awareness of the potential for grasslands such as floodplain meadows can bring.
This #NationalMeadowsDay, we're celebrating vital wildflower meadows 🌼
In our latest blog, Emily Hughes shares how the work at Alletree Park to restore species-rich grasslands on a landscape scale is helping wildlife thrive & boosting community wellbeing.
Read more- https://pulse.ly/pmo8f2krri
