Spring Sedge and Rare Spring Sedge are starting to flower in the polytunnel @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social habitat creation nursery. Already easy to tell apart, with Rare Spring Sedge (C. ericetorum) showing dark purplish- brown flowers, with papery edges to the glumes, and no green at all.

Marsh Violet (Viola palustris) flowering in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social and seed is now germinating after a cold strat. fridge treatment.

Great to see almost 2000 plants for Nidderdale National Landscape leaving the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social Much of the material was collected in Nidderdale, bulked up in the nursery, and will be used to enhance a network of new upland ponds & scrapes.

Cladium mariscus grown in the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social being planted into some rather challenging clay, starting a new area of quarry restoration.

This fen creation trial by the High Batts team at Pennycroft Quarry is hopefully the start of something much bigger. It's survived a mammoth river flood and prolonged inundation. Adjoining open water is crystal clear and dominated by stonewort beds, suggesting ideal conditions for calcareous fen.

We are getting Marsh Lousewort establishing in our created fen habitat @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social at last. We'll have to deter the deer from taking all the seed for a while yet. @judywebb.bsky.social

The Ripon Perambulation of 1481: a window onto the late medieval landscape of the Lower Ure Valley, North Yorkshire. www.luct.org.uk/new-page-2

Great to see Water Germander thriving at Bolton-on-Swale Lake @yorkswildlife.bsky.social despite drought and sheep grazing, lots of plants established on the lakeshore drawdown zone. Thanks to @palustris.bsky.social and LUCT.

Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry For more information, see the link below: www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...

It looks like a sown mixture of 'cornfield annuals' without the corn crop. It is absolutely not a meadow, which is a mixture of grasses and mostly perennial plants, usually cut for hay.

Marsh Pea plants in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social are setting seed for the first time. We have put plants together from several remaining Yorkshire sites, hoping for some genetic variation, as plants seem clonal in some places.

A Dyer's Greenweed stock plant flowering in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. Seed from the Central henge at Thornborough, and plants we raise will be going back there. Stock plants in the polytunnel as deer ate all the flowers/ young pods in previous years.

A beautiful Marsh Stitchwort in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social seed collected from Lower Derwent Valley NNR.

Tufted Loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora) in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. Only the second time we've seen it flower, deer ate the buds last time. Only 1 site known in England.

Great to see our plants from the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social flowering and about to produce seed so soon after planting. Thank you volunteers!

Fantastic to see Scarce Tufted Sedge, propagated by our team of volunteers here at Nosterfield, being introduced to four sites in Hertfordshire 👏👏 www.luct.org.uk/well-wetland... @heritagefunduk.bsky.social @carlinethis.bsky.social @palustris.bsky.social

Common Reed seed at the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social. The extraction is a somewhat messy process involving a liquidiser and a feathery kitchen. I do hope they germinate.

Primula farinosa in the habitat creation nursery @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social, North Yorkshire.

Good to see Toothwort back, this is on Hazel, well ahead of that on Wych Elm this year, unlike most years.

Marsh Violet flowering @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social habitat creation nursery. Propped from a single plant collected in Nidderdale, to return there this year.