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Situated next to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, The Wildlife Meadow together with John’s Garden offer great opportunities for spotting Kingfishers as they flash past showing their striking blue and orange colouring. To enable us and our visitors to admire them up close we have made some careful additions to the canal-side in the Wildlife […]

With summer coming to an end, the grassland plants and insects using the Wildlife Meadow are starting to complete their life-cycles and prepare for winter. With sunshine not arriving until late this year it has been a particularly poor year for butterflies. Holly Blues and Orange-tips were seen early in the year, but in small […]

A big thank you to all the visitors who braved the heavy rain to come to see the moths we caught in the Wildlife Meadow at Ashwood as part of National Moth Night 2016. Organised by Atropos and Butterfly Conservation,  events were held across Britain and Ireland from June 9th-11th aiming to raise public awareness […]

Late winter sunshine catching the early daffodils and primroses in The Wildlife Meadow is a sure sign that spring is on its way. The plants and then insects that start to appear as the days get longer will be welcome news for birds as we reach the time of year when food is hard to […]