Ordinary moss
Ordinary moss is very common in gardens and woodlands. moss provides shelter for many minibeasts, so encourage it to grow in your garden by providing logs, stone piles and untidy areas.
Ordinary moss is very common in gardens and woodlands. moss provides shelter for many minibeasts, so encourage it to grow in your garden by providing logs, stone piles and untidy areas.
Learn about the mosses and lichens which cover Kingcombe Meadows, just in time for World Moss Day.
Sedge warblers chatter, rare butterflies flutter and buzzards circle overhead at Heysham Moss.
This important peatland brims with beautiful birds, bees and beetles, rare mosses and carnivorous plants.
Sphagnum mosses carpet the ground with colour on our marshes, heaths and moors. They play a vital role in the creation of peat bogs: by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay…
Diverse range of habitats supports a good number of species of plants, mosses, ferns as well as butterflies, beetles, spiders and moths. This makes an excellent reserve for birds throughout the…
Small wetlands tucked into hollows in a windswept hill and dale landscape
Danes Moss is the largest & highest lowland raised bog in Cheshire
A raised peat bog, supporting plants such as heather, sphagnum moss and cottongrass
The marsh hair moss is the largest moss in the UK. Look out for it in damp woodland and on boggy heathlands where it forms large, green and spikey 'cushions'.
Ospreys use Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve as a nesting site. Visit for free.