Winter Planting – Wetland Plants!

Wetland Plants  – When to Plant or When Not to Plant – That is the Question! While we are in a spell of reasonably mild winter weather the question is what can be planted safely at this time of year. Whilst there are risks to planting in the winter months,...

Leighton Buzzard Station

Recently it has been reported by South Bedfordshire’s Friends of the Earth that the help British Flora gave to the Leighton Buzzard Station Project meant that a new area of wildlife habitat creation is to be the object of a visit from the Environment Minister this...

Reed Beds

Naturally occurring wetlands have a natural, innate ability to remediate contaminants from water. Over the decades BritishFlora have supplied many millions of reeds, Phragmites communis, for both habitat creation projects such as bird reserves to attract bittern,...

River Erosion

With extensive frontage along the banks of the River Thames, the grounds of the world River Erosion famous Henley Management College are much used by students and visitors alike. But when wave action and signal crayfish burrowing undermined a quarter of a mile of the...

Salt Marsh Creation

Edmund Nuttall/Van Oorde JV were appointed by Medway Council and the South BoatEast Development Agency to a £38m scheme to remediate the highly contaminated former industrial site at Rochester Riverside, raise land installations for new flood defences and enlarge two...