Trees & plants

Riverside plant

12 riverside plants to spot

Traditional organic hay meadow with pyramid orchid, Gloucestershire

No Mow May 2022: Why you should lock up your lawnmower this month

Common dandelions (Taraxacum officinale) flowering in field in spring. (Photo by: Arterra/UIG via Getty Images)

May foraging guide: best foods to find and recipe ideas

Sunrise in an oak wood – BBC Countryfile podcast

Bluebells guide: how to identify and best bluebell walks in the UK

Dandelions

Food and Recipes

Dandelion guide: where to find, how to pick and recipe ideas

Five Swanscombe campaigners standing on wildlife site with white cliffs of Dover in the background

Rare wildlife site in Kent saved from theme park development – for now

Purple flowers in a meadow

Orchid ID guide: species to look for in Britain

Seagrass Under the sea in an exposed rock pool at low tide on Little Fistral Beach, Newquay in Cornwall.

Ellie Harrison: save our seagrass meadows

Orchard blossom in spring

Orchards more than halved in England and Wales since 1900s

Meadow flowers

Best orchid sites to visit in the UK

Yellow flower

A brief history of British daffodils

Marden Meadow Nature Reserve, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe./Credit: Getty

Meadow guide: where to see and best wildflowers to plant

Lychnis flos-cuculi, Pedicularis palustris - Ragged Robin and Marsh Lousewort on South Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

Guide to the UK’s parasitic meadow plants

Blossom and branches

Blackthorn guide: how to identify, folklore and uses

Chickweed

Monthly foraging guide: what’s in season, where to find it, and how to forage responsibly