Great to see almost 2000 plants for Nidderdale National Landscape leaving the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social Much of the material was collected in Nidderdale, bulked up in the nursery, and will be used to enhance a network of new upland ponds & scrapes.

Cladium mariscus grown in the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social being planted into some rather challenging clay, starting a new area of quarry restoration.

This fen creation trial by the High Batts team at Pennycroft Quarry is hopefully the start of something much bigger. It's survived a mammoth river flood and prolonged inundation. Adjoining open water is crystal clear and dominated by stonewort beds, suggesting ideal conditions for calcareous fen.

Thanks for the warning, will do. It is going to be a long time till we see any evidence of any ecosystem engineering I'm afraid. You may have noticed the Crassula in the picture, we could do with some suppression!

We are getting Marsh Lousewort establishing in our created fen habitat @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social at last. We'll have to deter the deer from taking all the seed for a while yet. @judywebb.bsky.social

The Ripon Perambulation of 1481: a window onto the late medieval landscape of the Lower Ure Valley, North Yorkshire.
www.luct.org.uk/new-page-2

Great to see Water Germander thriving at Bolton-on-Swale Lake @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
despite drought and sheep grazing, lots of plants established on the lakeshore drawdown zone. Thanks to @palustris.bsky.social and LUCT.

Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm

Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry

For more information, see the link below:

www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...

This looks like a sown mixture of 'cornfield annuals' without the corn crop. Meadows are mixtures of grasses and mostly perennial plants, usually cut for hay.

It looks like a sown mixture of 'cornfield annuals' without the corn crop. It is absolutely not a meadow, which is a mixture of grasses and mostly perennial plants, usually cut for hay.

It was, though a sales failure as we'd aim to sell them before flowering!

Marjoram & Thymes were our most popular herbs for butterflies. We kept an old patch of Hedge Germander to flower because it was so attractive to Bumlebees. Bring back flower- rich meadows!

These were a real menace for us, used to net them.

I will try again then. The mature plants seem very robust. I think these areas of SSSI are cut on a 6 year NE rotation.

Marsh Pea plants in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social are setting seed for the first time. We have put plants together from several remaining Yorkshire sites, hoping for some genetic variation, as plants seem clonal in some places.

We have huge swathes of them growing with Meadowsweet & Comfrey on High Batts reserve near Ripon, but I've never managed to get seed to germinate.

Good idea, giving some chance of natural spread.

First time in ages the bunnies did not eat everything.

A Dyer's Greenweed stock plant flowering in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. Seed from the Central henge at Thornborough, and plants we raise will be going back there. Stock plants in the polytunnel as deer ate all the flowers/ young pods in previous years.

A beautiful Marsh Stitchwort in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social seed collected from Lower Derwent Valley NNR.

Another great thread Lin, thank you.

Tufted Loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora) in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. Only the second time we've seen it flower, deer ate the buds last time. Only 1 site known in England.

Great to see our plants from the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social flowering and about to produce seed so soon after planting. Thank you volunteers!

Fantastic to see Scarce Tufted Sedge, propagated by our team of volunteers here at Nosterfield, being introduced to four sites in Hertfordshire 👏👏

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All the feathery bits of panicle which don't make it into the liquidiser. There are not many viable seeds produced, so we probably processed a couple of buckets of seedheads.

Bottom pic looks like Marsh Violet.

Ah, that will be the slow-release fertiliser...

We gave some of the plants a 'headstart' immersion tratment to encourage tussocking. It seemed to delay early Spring development, but they have put on a spurt!

Great to see how well our plants have grown. They will surely produce seed this year.

I'm afraid I didn't look, but I shall now!