Top tips for growing Yellow Rattle in your wildflower meadow
Are you developing a wildflower meadow in your school grounds, home or local greenspace? August is the perfect time to get sowing certain species - including Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor. Known as the 'Meadow Maker', Yellow Rattle is one of the most important plants you need for a meadow as [...]
Pollinator-friendly actions in different places
This Scottish pollinators blog (15 July 2024) reports on Making good connections – part two Read on for inspirational practice from different places across Scotland!
Meadow in a box
This Scottish Pollinators post (28 September 2023) shares a guest blog by Simon Whitworth, currently working as a Countryside Officer at Aberdeen City Council. Find out about his work to help pollinators, and his ‘Meadow in a box’ scheme for schools. A great idea easily replicated in your area!
National Meadows Day 2023 – live video from the Cairngorms
Join Sam, Cairngorms Project Manager, Plantlife in this video, as he explores the special plants and management of the Dulnain Valley in the Cairngorms.
Creating a school meadow has brought us closer to nature
This article in the TES (14th April 2023), written by the Head teacher of Morgan Academy Dundee, has been shared by Children in Scotland. Headteacher Johnny Lothian describes how The Eden Project helped sow a wildflower meadow in the school grounds. Read how this partnership project has become an important [...]
Making great meadows
Great advice from Plantlife, applicable to managing grassland for biodiversity (and a richer learning environment) whether in your school grounds, gardens or in the wider community.
