International Women's Day
This International Women's Day, Dorset Wildlife Trust wants to shine a light on some of the incredible women working to protect wildlife in Dorset.
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Celebrating International Women's Day 2025
This International Women's Day, we're shining a light on some of the incredible women working to protect wildlife in Dorset.
Coastal Plants - how they survive at Kimmeridge
Wild Seas Centre Officer, Julie Hatcher tells us about the hardy wildflowers of Kimmeridge - and why they survive in a harsh environment.
Lady fern
One of the prettiest hardy ferns, the lady fern is delicate and lacy, with ladder-like foliage. It makes a good garden fern, providing attractive cover for wildlife.
Common polypody
The common polypody is a hardy fern of damp, shady places in woodlands. It also makes a good garden fern. It has ladder-like, leathery foliage with pimply undersides - these spots are the spores…
Common woodlouse
If you were to pick up a rock in the garden, you’d hopefully find a few common woodlouse. These hardy minibeasts have in-built armour and like to hide in warm, moist places like compost heaps.
Hart's-tongue fern
The hart's-tongue fern is a hardy fern of damp, shady places in woodlands. It also makes a good garden fern. It has simple, tongue-shaped, glossy, green leaves that have orange spores on…
Oakdale Library Gardens Association
A group of local people who came together in 2013 with the encouragement from Creekmoor with Oakdale Women’s Institute who wanted to create a garden that benefited the local community, to encourage people to use the local library and to encourage more wildlife into the garden.