Living Churchyards project
Over the last 22 years, a team of Dorset Wildlife Volunteers have visited over 150 churches throughout Dorset to give advice on managing churchyards with wildlife in mind.
The yew is a well-known tree of churchyards, but also grows wild on chalky soils. Yew trees can live for hundreds of years, turning into a maze of hollow wood and fallen trunks beneath dense…
The transformation of the overgrown and litter filled St Peter’s churchyard into a tranquil green space in Bournemouth town centre has been completed with the installation of the Heritage and…
Perhaps the first sign that spring is just around the corner is the snowdrop poking its way through the frosted soil of a woodland, churchyard or garden. From January, look for its famous nodding…