Rewilding Britain

03/11/2024

24/09/2024

Excited to introduce, Paddy, as the newest member of our team!

Having grown up in the countryside, Paddy spent his childhood exploring the wilderness, sparking a lifelong love for nature. While he holds a degree in music, his passion has always been in horticulture, where he’s spent much of his career.

Pictured here in one of our beaver ponds, Paddy will soon be assisting me with Venn Nurseries, expanding the business and continuing to support native species and rewilding projects across Great Britain.

For the benefit of new followers, we grow and sell native plant species to support rewilding and conservation projects across Great Britain.

Our passion for nature drives us to contribute to the recovery of ecosystems damaged by human activity. By focusing on native plants, we aim to restore biodiversity, support wildlife habitats, and help regenerate healthy landscapes.

We work closely with organisations and individuals on rewilding schemes, providing plants crucial to restoring local ecosystems. Growing on demand, we tailor our efforts to meet the needs of specific projects and are always ready to assist in giving nature a chance to thrive. Whether it’s restoring wetlands, woodlands, or meadows, we’re committed to playing our part in the planet’s recovery, ensuring future generations inherit a healthier, more diverse natural world.

Let us know how we can help your project succeed by providing native species essential to ecological restoration. Together, we can help nature recover and flourish again.

16/08/2024

28/08/2023

Just received this photograph from the National Trust. Planting went well, 1,000 Carex paniculata happily in their new homes. 💚

We still have more Greater tussock sedge here available and it’s a great time of year to plant. Do get in touch if you’d like to introduce this magnificent plant to your own rewilding project.

They are fantastic carbon sinks and live to well over a century creating not only huge environmental benefits but also a stunning visual impact to the landscape.
During their long life in our wetlands they provide homes to countless animals and insects. The make great habitat for water voles who love to burrow into their warm layered tussocks.

Once Britain was covered in these wonderful plants but during the war when the land was drained for farming, hundreds of thousands of these beautiful pampas like plants were ripped out to make way for agriculture.

28/08/2023

https://www.discoveranimals.co.uk/news/beavers-transform-holnicote-estate/

A great project underway at Holnicote. We’ve recently just provided National Trust with 1,000 Greater tussock-sedge plants as part of their river restoration.

In this short film, Discover Animals' Geoff Moore visits the National Trust's Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in Somerset, to discover more about how beavers have been re-introduced. 📸 National Trust Images Nick Upton

18/05/2022

Here are some interesting facts about the dandelion flower:

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars. ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️. The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moon and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep. 😴

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for coloring.

Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as 5 miles from their origin!

Animals such as birds, insects and butterflies consume nectar or seed of dandelion.🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seed.

Dandelion can be used in the production of wine and root beer. Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee. 🍷 🍺

Dandelions have sunk their roots deep into history. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as diuretic.

If you mow dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist, masters of survival worldwide. 💪

A not so fun fact: Every year countries spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green.

Bee Happy Gardens 🐝

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17/05/2022

Found some Chicken of the woods whilst walking Lucy in the bluebell wood today.

30/04/2022

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/venn_nurseries/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

I’ve started selling a few plants on eBay to make it easier to buy smaller amounts.

24/04/2022

L👀k at how the beavers have started on the base of this ancient beech 🦫🌳
Swipe to see the size of the tree they’re taking on ⬅️