Autumn gentian
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
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This grassland paradise in the Belfast Hills is our largest nature reserve and is home to a stunning variety of rare wildlife.
As the nights draw in and the weather gets colder, it may be tempting to have a big tidy up of your garden, but DON’T! Put down your shovel and pruners and let nature in to your garden this autumn…
Everyone loves a hedgehog: they look cute, they can roll into a prickly ball, and they snuffle around munching pesky slugs and snails that devour our prized plants – a gardener’s best friend! But…
Join Katy Bell, our Senior Conservation Officer, to find out more about the amazing array of bees and butterflies found at our Slievenacloy Nature Reserve.
Over 25 conservation cattle have been fitted with cutting-edge GPS collars at Slievenacloy Nature Reserve, in the Belfast Hills, to help restore this designated grassland site and boost…
Fancy lending a hand to maintain the species-rich grassland habitat at our Slievenacloy Nature Reserve? Join our Nature Reserves Team to help remove ragwort from this Area of Special Scientific…
The puss moth is a large and fluffy moth, with a very strange looking caterpillar.
The brimstone moth is a yellow, night-flying moth with distinctive brown-and-white spots on its angular forewings. It frequently visits gardens, but also likes woods, scrub and grasslands.
This fluffy moth is one of the few species that fly in winter.