The white flowers brightening hedgerows at the moment mainly belong to hawthorn. This spiky shrub is important for lots of wildlife, providing sheltered nesting habitat, berries later in the year…

Ivy has an image problem. For decades people have believed that ivy damages buildings and is a parasite to trees with little wildlife benefit. All this could not be further from the truth.

Most of us probably recognise the tune of the famous carol ‘the Holly and the Ivy’, if not the words of the song. But what do you know about these and the other most Christmassy of plants,…

The Trust’s smallest nature reserve, Mapledurwell Fen, is nestled in a corner of Basingstoke and Deane. It has been called the “richest half acre in Hampshire” and survey results from 2019 prove…

You might have heard of the Venus fly-trap, but did you know that there are thirteen species of plants native to the UK and Ireland that eat animals?