King’s Meadow is this year home to a variety of rare orchid flowers and Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust is keen to protect them.
This wild flower heaven is just a stones throw away from the hustle and bustle of Castle Marina retail park.
The meadow has become home to a range of wildflowers, most notably the different variety of orchid’s which are considered very rare now across the country.
Since 1992 the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has been working to maintain the meadow.
Staff from the Novozymes Biopharma who have been supporting the Wildlife Trust since 2008, took a wild flower walk around the meadow.
Novozymes Biopharma, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Kate Denton feels passionate about making sure nature reserves like this one don’t get eradicated from our landscapes.
Video: Kate Denton, Regulatory Affairs Manager at Novozymes Biopharma.
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has seen a variety of orchids at the meadow including: Bee orchids, common spotted orchids and a hybrid between the marsh and the common spotted orchids.
Chris Kennedy, Southern Reserves Officer for the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, says around 80% of our wildflower meadows have disappeared from our landscape because of aggricultural tensification.
All sorts of wildflowers are quite rare these days, and orchids are just a special sort of wildflower to have on them and their not very common at all.
Chris Kennedy, Sourthern Reserves Officer for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust are constantly campaigning and working to save and maintain wildflower meadows like this one, they believe everyone should take the chance to reconnect with wildlife by taking a walk through the King’s Meadow Nature Reserve.
Picture: King’s Meadow Nature Reserve.
