About the reserve

These flower-rich wet meadows are kept lush and green by the Monk’s Brook, which flows through the reserve.

Flexford is a small part of a former widespread habitat that was divided up by housing development. Safeguarded by Eastleigh Borough Council and the Trust to protect local wildlife, the reserve is divided into two parts by the railway line; Upper Flexford and Lower Flexford.

Come and see

In the summer, the meadows are ablaze with colour from ragged-robin, yellow loosestrife, yellow flag iris, sneezewort and common spotted orchid.

Visit in spring to see wild garlic  (ramsons), bluebell, golden-saxifrage  and orange-tip butterfly.

Listen for the great spotted woodpecker and watch tree creeper and nuthatch spiral up and down the trunks of trees.

In the winter see colourful siskin, goldfinch and redpoll feasting on the cones from the alder tree.