Bog asphodel
The yellow, star-like flowers of bog asphodel brighten up our peat bogs, damp heaths and moors in early summer, attracting a range of pollinating insects.
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Raised bog
Unlike blanket bog, which smothers vast tracts of the uplands, raised bogs are discrete entities, often individually named, and are mostly found within agricultural landscapes in the lowlands.
Blanket bog
Bleak, treeless and often shrouded in low cloud, blanket bog can seem a desolate habitat. However, the wildness of the huge, empty landscapes and wide skies are compelling, as is the chance of…
Lords-and-ladies
Look for the unusual flowers of lords-and-ladies in spring woodlands: a pale green sheath surrounds a spike of tiny, yellow flowers. This spike eventually forms a familiar, short stalk of striking…
International Bog Day 2022
Every year International Bog Day gives us the chance to celebrate all of our precious peatlands. Find out what we're up to here in Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside.
Bog bush-cricket
This scarce bush-cricket can be found on the boggy parts of heathlands.
Can you grow lettuce on a bog?
Our Rindle wetter farming trial has just been planted up with this years crop of celery and lettuce. But how do you grow crops on a peat bog, and why would you even try?
How to make a bog garden
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
A Bog's Life tells the tale of a beloved Manchester peatland
Little Woolden Moss has been through a lot in its time, and new funding will help to tell its story.
Great North Bog rises to the climate challenge
The Wildlife Trusts unveil 12 new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon. Among them is Lancashire Wildlife…
Work starts on carbon capturing peat bog
Work has started on a pioneering project that aims to restore rare habitat and boost carbon capture in Lancashire.
Lancashire Wildlife Trust welcomes Lord Lieutenant
This week our peat team along with farmers Cam and Lisa Edwards from Goose Meadow Farming Ltd welcomed Amanda Parker, the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire to show her our paludiculture trial in West…