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ASDA Community Volunteering
One of our project officers, Mandy Bell, talks about the experience leading the ASDA volunteers around one of the Healing Nature project sites, Colliery Wood, Boldon. Mandy explains below what all…
North East Community Forest
How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Nextdoor Nature: Community Interest Form
Greater plantain
Pushing its way up through the cracks in pavements, the straw-coloured flower spikes of greater plantain or 'broadleaf plantain' are a familiar sight. This 'weed' also pops up…
Ribwort plantain
The brown, oval flower heads of ribwort plantain balance on top of thin, wiry stems; the resulting seed heads provide food for birds in winter. Look for this 'weed' in lawns, fields and…
Milkwellburn Wood
A large mixed woodland in the Derwent valley with a history of commercial planting and coal mining
Wood spurge
As its name suggests, Wood spurge is found in woodlands. It is an attractive evergreen that displays cup-shaped, green flowers in clusters and dark green leaves.
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow chest and eyestripe.
wood anemone
A spring delight, the wood anemone grows in dappled shade in ancient woodlands. Traditional management, such as coppicing, can help such flowers by opening up the woodland floor to sunlight.
Speckled wood
The speckled wood prefers the dappled sunlight of woodland rides and edges, hedgerows and even gardens. Despite declines, its range has spread over recent years.