Beadlet anemone
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
The future of Bristol’s Local Wildlife Sites and their lack of protection was under discussion this afternoon when Darren Jones, Bristol North West MP, visited Lawrence Weston Moor with Avon…
A project to reveal some of Bristol’s hidden spaces for wildlife gets underway this week led by Avon Wildlife Trust in partnership with Bristol City Council, with initial support* for National…
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
After eight successful years of the site operating as Feed Bristol, Avon Wildlife Trust’s flagship food growing project is renaming to Grow Wilder.
After a long period of closure to the general public, Avon Wildlife Trust is incredibly excited that Grow Wilder, our unique urban wildlife site based in Stapleton, is now open to the public once…
A delicate, small plant of woodlands and hedgerows, wood-sorrel has distinctive, trefoil leaves and white flowers with purple veins; both fold up at night.
A new outdoor kitchen has been built at Avon Wildlife Trust’s Feed Bristol site in Stapleton thanks to generous funding.
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…