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Trees woods and wildlife
Wood blewit
Pastel-toned and edible with a magical twist. Wood blewit has a blue to violet-tinged cap and gills when young, with pale pink spores. It sometimes grows in circles called ‘fairy rings’, which can appear overnight and were once thought to indicate that magic was at work.
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Try tree dressing
Celebrate a special tree with decorations made by your pupils.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Avon Valley Woods
Woodleigh
139.42 ha (344.51 acres)
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Manifesto for the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections
Find out all about the Woodland Trust's manifesto for the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Den Wood
Oldmeldrum
18.83 ha (46.53 acres)
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Trees woods and wildlife
Timothy grass
A gentle and swaying irritant. Though this grass is a favourite with insects and farmers, it may well be to blame for your hay fever! It is a very common allergen, but is now being used in a cure to your seasonal sneezes.
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Woodland Trust Wood
Pressmennan Wood
Stenton nr Dunbar
85.87 ha (212.18 acres)
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Trees woods and wildlife
Tree pipit
Small, unassuming, brown. This woodland edge insect-muncher is often overlooked. But what it lacks in looks it makes for with its belting song.
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Visiting woods
Discover woods in spring
Our woods are beautiful year-round, but the jewel in the crown has got to be spring. As flowers bloom and wildlife awakens, the woodland comes alive with colour and activity.
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First World War Centenary Woods
One hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, we marked the anniversary with one of our most ambitious planting projects to date.