The best plants for bees and pollinators
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Get your summer garden plants. We will have a wide range of plants for sale including garden plants, herbs and vegetable plants.
Freshen up your garden with a range of annuals, perennials, shrubs and vegetables, with an emphasis on wildlife-friendly varieties, mostly grown by Essex Wildlife Trust members.
A chance to freshen up your garden with a range of annuals, perennials, shrubs and vegetables, with an emphasis on wildlife-friendly varieties, mostly grown by EWT members.
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
Volunteers and staff from Essex Wildlife Trust’s Abberton Reservoir Visitor Centre have reached their goal of planting over 4000 trees this winter. This will make the running total of trees…
Discover who is living in our pond!
Come along and discover who is living in our pond!
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
Explore aquatic wonders with hands-on pond dipping adventure for all.
Join us for a pond dipping session to explore what creatures live under the surface!
A tussocky sedge, Greater pond sedge has stout, upright flower spikes, strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils.