Concerns raised over development impacts on Dane’s Moss Nature Reserve
New concerns have been raised over the South Macclesfield Development’s impact on Dane’s Moss Nature Reserve.
New concerns have been raised over the South Macclesfield Development’s impact on Dane’s Moss Nature Reserve.
Ordinary moss is very common in gardens and woodlands. moss provides shelter for many minibeasts, so encourage it to grow in your garden by providing logs, stone piles and untidy areas.
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The marsh hair moss is the largest moss in the UK. Look out for it in damp woodland and on boggy heathlands where it forms large, green and spikey 'cushions'.
The Black darter is a black, narrow-bodied dragonfly that can be seen throughout summer and autumn. It is hovers around damp moors, heaths and bogs, darting out to surprise its prey.
Danes Moss is the largest & highest lowland raised bog in Cheshire
Sphagnum mosses carpet the ground with colour on our marshes, heaths and moors. They play a vital role in the creation of peat bogs: by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay…
This wetland reserve is the only known area of lowland bog in Cheshire that hasn't been cut for peat.
A climbing plant of hedgerows and woodlands, Black bryony produces greenish flowers in summer and red, shiny berries in autumn. It is a poisonous plant.
The pungent, rotten smell of Black Horehound makes this medium-sized plant of waste ground and roadside verges stand out from the crowd.