Woodland
Woodlands are magical places, full of wildlife and full of history. Great spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and jays flit between trees as butterflies dance in sunny glades. Badgers forage through…
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Open Gardens
Our Open Gardens events showcase an array of wildlife-friendly gardens across Cornwall and are a great way to connect with nature.
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
How to make a woodland edge garden for wildlife
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Historic estate and bluebell woodland begins Trust Open Gardens
The garden at the historic Coldrenick House in Menheniot is the first of 12 opening this year in aid of Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Highlights will undoubtedly be the bluebell woodland, magnolias and…
Historic Cornish estate with bluebell woodland to start Trust’s Open Garden season
Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s 2019 Open Gardens season begins on Sunday 14th April with one of Cornwall’s most historic and stunning gardens. Coldrenick House in Menheniot is splendid in the spring…
Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI) Update Project
The Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI) aims to identify woodland and wood pasture that has been continuously present for the last 400 years (since 1600).
Garden Birds
Can you spot Britain's top ten garden birds in your garden? Find out how to identify common garden birds and how you can attract birds to your garden.
Back to nature with Trust gardens finale
A treat awaits visitors for the grand finale of Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s popular Open Gardens scheme as they visit the truly unique Tanglewood Wild Garden on Sunday 10th September and finish off…
Garden warbler
A plain-looking warbler, the garden warbler is a summer visitor to the UK. It is a shy bird and is most likely to be heard, rather than seen, in woodland and scrub habitats.
Garden bumblebee
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…