“Wild About Gardens”
Wildlife Gardening Workshop; Saturday 21st March 2pm – 5pm
St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 5HR. Tea/coffee cold drinks and cakes will be served.
Are you looking for ways to enhance your garden for the greatest enjoyment of you and the wildlife? Hoping to attract insects, amphibians, birds, mammals? Not sure if you can fit in a pond? Or which flowers are most attractive to butterflies?
By popular demand the Ross Branch of the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is now offering a further short practical workshop on how to make your garden more wildlife-friendly, run by experienced gardeners. It will cover the importance of food, water and shelter, seasonal planting, looking after your soil and how your garden can play its part in your local setting. The approach will be friendly and informal with plenty of opportunity for questions and a helpful list of resources you can take away.
All are welcome. It is ideal for beginners, anyone who is looking to revamp their garden or just has an interest in supporting wildlife in their garden. You do not need to be a Wildlife Trust member and it is open to anyone who can join us in Ross.
Spaces are strictly limited, and free of charge, so it is essential that you book.
email: hwtrossbranch@gmail.com
Seeing is Bee-lieving!
The next talk from Leominster Branch of Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is titled “Seeing is Bee-lieving!” Branch member, Martha, an insect specialist, will tell us all about bees, including how to help this endangered insect. This talk is suitable for all the family.
Saturday 21st March, 2.30pm, Forbury Chapel, Church St. Leominster.
Members £2; non-members £3. Accompanied children free.
Mustelids and other Mammals with Stuart Moore
Kington branch talk.
Tuesday 24th March 7.30pm – 9.00pm. Kingswood Village Hall, Kingswood, Nr Kington, HR5 3HE
Herefordshire Citizen Bat Project
Herefordshire Mammal Group (HMG) has secured a small grant from FCC Environmental to run a citizen science project during 2026, helping local communities and interested groups understand and record their local bat populations. HMG are hoping that established local groups and Councils interested in recording Biodiversity will join in and use the loan bat detectors to record bat activity in their area. The ‘optimal’ survey season for bats is late April to mid-September.
To launch the project, HMG have organised an Introduction to Bats and the Citizen Bat Project for Thursday 26th March 2026, 7:30pm at Bartestree Village Hall (HR1 4BY). If you would like to attend, send a representative of your Group/Parish/Town Council, or register to receive further information on Citizen Bat, please contact h.citizenbat@gmail.com
