Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Celebrate National Meadows Day: Protecting Our Irreplaceable National Treasures National Meadows Day, is celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July (this year falling on 4 July). It is a vital call to action to appreciate and protect the UK’s disappearing wildflower meadows. MeadowsRead More
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There is a field of barley growing near Salcombe Regis. There is nothing apparently remarkable about that, but this crop is remarkable for two reasons, it is specifically for thatching and its perimeter is a haven for nature. Much is made these days aboutRead More
Leave a comment As we come to the end of June, our hedgerows and meadows are filling with yellow and white froth as members of the bedstraw family come into flower. Bedstraws are members of the Rubiaceae family, a name which translates as red plants because theRead More
Leave a comment Wildflower meadows are all the rage for many reasons: they can be a bright and cheerful spectacle when they are at their flowering peak in May and June, they produce nutritious winter food for livestock, but most importantly from my perspective, they are theRead More
Leave a comment We have many fine trees around our town, one of the things that makes Sidmouth a pleasant place for humans to live, but we are not alone in enjoying our treescape. If you go for a walk around many areas of the town atRead More
Leave a comment If you are out and about as summer progresses you might notice the tops of tall grasses and other plants such as nettles wrapped into a ball by spider web. This will probably be the nest of one of our remarkable spiders the NurseryRead More
Leave a comment It may surprise people to learn that many of the small airfields across the country are excellent nature reserves, as are some of the military training grounds. The key is that many of these sites are left alone largely, people are kept out andRead More
Leave a comment If you are a bumblebee living near the beach and raising this year’s brood you will be glad that the purple trumpets of the tree mallows are open with their rich supply of nectar and pollen. The area of the beach by the BelmontRead More
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