British Isles habitats and landscapes
 

Bluebell wood, Ashridge

 

Fallen tree bluebell wood, Ashridge

 

Bluebell wood with ash trees, Ashridge

 

Bluebell wood, Kent

 

Bluebells beech wood Downe, Kent

 

Pollarded beech trees Epping forest

 

Pollards Epping Forest

 

Ancient pollarded beech, New Forest

 

Beech tree Ashridge

 

Beech tree blown down in 1987 hurricane showing root plate with thin chalk soil

 

Fallen beech tree Fagus sylvatica storm damaged severe stress in the trunk

 

Storm damage to mature trees after hurricane of 1987 Olanteigh Wye Kent

 

Forest interior, New Forest

 

Forest interior, New Forest

 

Embankments beech woodland interior, New Forest

 

Embankments beech woodland interior, New Forest

 

Brickhill woods autumn

 

Brickhill woods autumn

 

Moss on cut branches of beech on forest floor

 

Moss on beech tree base

 

Tree stump in forest

 

Fagus sylvatica Beech

 

Beech woodland Bramshaw New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Autumn colour on beech trees New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Beech plantation on very thin soil over chalk rock, Chilterns

 

Track in forest beech trees autumn colour, Shere, Surrey

 

Beech trees on ancient bank, spring foliage, Ashridge

 

Snowy beech trees, Ashridge

 

Beech wood snow, Woburn

 

Woodland Ynys Eidiol, Wales

 

Woodland Ynys Eidiol, Wales

 

Johnny's wood oak woodland

 

Johnny's wood oak woodland

 

Oak beech woodland new forest Fagus sylvatica Quercus

 

Oak beech woodland new forest Fagus sylvatica Quercus

 

Ancient tree, New Forest

 

Forest interior, New Forest

 

Embankments woodland interior, New Forest

 

Borrowdale oak woodland, Lake District

 

Broadbalk wilderness, Rothamstead

 

Wall in woodland Borrowdale, Lake District

 

Woodland, Heath and Reach

 

Glade New Forest

 

Oak tree New Forest

 

Dowels mill Wyre forest

 

Island in River Neath south Wales

 

Misty woods with coppaced oaks, Stockgrove park, Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire

 

Oak woodland, Norleywood, New Forest

 

Snow in woodland, Peak District

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

tree tubes, woburn woods

 

Tree tubes

 

Sunrise oak, Woburn

 

Ancient oak trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Oak copse at Open University with celendines ranunculus ficaria and dandilions taraxacum

 

Oak trees Woburn winter leafless

 

Quercus robur English Oak or Pedunculate Oak

 

Lime trees and snow heath and reach

 

Lime woodland, Kings wood, Heath and Reach

 

Wet woodland with ferns Alnus alder

 

Wet woodland with ferns Alnus alder

 

Alders along stream, cerne abbas

 

Alder woodland Stockgrove country park

 

wet Alder woodland Alnus glutinosa

 

Frost and birch trees, New Forest

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Birch woodland Craigellachie, Aviemore, Scotland

 

Birch trunks, Stannage, Peak District

 

Birch and bracken autumn color New Forest heath

 

Croft and autumn colour on birch trees Loch an Eilein

 

birch snow pond near Loch Morlich

 

Root plate on shallow rooted birch Betula on waterlogged soil

 

Alium ursinum Wild Garlic Cheddar Gorge Somerset

 

Sweet chestnut coppace with bluebells, Kent

 

Sweet chestnut coppace (Castanea sativa) with bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scriptus) and red campion (Silene dioica).

 

Newly coppaced sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) at kings wood near Challock Kent with snow

 

Conservation volunteers lighting fire in forest

 

Wet woodland Roydon common, Norfolk

 

Scrub on hillside. Snowdonia. Wales

 

Sallow trees on hillside near Tyndrum, Scotland

 

Chalk grassland and scrub, Stepps hill, Ivinghoe

 

Hazel wood Tokavaig, Skye, Scotland

 

Wooded valley near Devils bridge. Wales

 

Aesculus hippocastanum Horse Chestnut

 

Willan poplar plantation and blue sky taken with fisheye lens

 

Willan poplar plantation and blue sky taken with fisheye lens

 

Ulmus sp. Elm

 

Forestry plantation on hillside, Loch Lochy, Scotland

 

Mechanised forestry, flow country, Scotland

 

Mixed woodland Aviemore, Scotland

 

Scots pine forest, Glen Affric, Scotland

 

Tree roots, Aira force, Lake District

 

Browsed tree, Scotland

 

Caledonian pine forest Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Logs in pine plantation

 

Ferns along drainage ditch in conifer plantation, Scotland

 

Ferns along drainage ditch in conifer plantation, Scotland

 

Caledonian pine forest, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Pinus sylvestris scots pine Glen more forest park near Aviemore

 

Pinus sylvestris scots pine Upper Tullochgrue Rothiemurchas near Aviemore Scotland

 

Pines Castle Head, Keswick, Lake District

 

Sunbeam, Woburn woods

 

Conifer wood with early morning mist, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood with early morning mist, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood with early morning mist, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood early morning mist landrover, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood early morning mist landrover, Brickhill

 

Forest ride, Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Pine roots, Loch Garten, Scotland

 

Caledonian pine forest, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Pines mist the Lodge RSPB, Sandy

 

Pine plantation with braken, Woburn

 

Pines near Woburn

 

Pine cones in Scots pine forest

 

Conifer plantation, ferns, Woburn

 

Pinus sylvestris Scots pine Loch an Eilein near Aviemore Scotland

 

Larix sp. Larch

 

Dawn cattle New Forest

 

Gorse and heather on hillside, Lake District

 

Old mine Haytor, Dartmoor

 

Calluna vulgaris Heather

 

Heathland, Ampthill

 

Birch tree in heathland, New Forest

 

Heathland, New Forest

 

Heathland Ampthill, Bedfordshire

 

Heathland gorse and heather Haldon, Devon

 

Pteridium aquilinium Bracken

 

Coal slagheap with Calluna heather colonising slowly

 

Old silver mine, Dartmoor, Devon

 

Sphagnum bog with bog plants and wet flush

 

Burnt gorse (Ulex europaea) with regenerating seedlings and bracken

 

Burnt gorse (Ulex europaea) with regenerating seedlings and bracken

 

Heathland Ashdown forest

 

Heathland Ashdown forest

 

Galium verum Lady's Bedstraw

 

Chalk grassland and exclosures, Castle hill, Sussex

 

Colley hill chalk grassland, Reigate, Surrey

 

Grassland on oolitic limestone

 

Limestone grassland, Cotswolds

 

Chalk grassland near Great Cheverell, Salisbury plain

 

Chalk grassland and scrub, Stepps hill, Ivinghoe

 

Chalk grassland and scrub, Stepps hill, Ivinghoe

 

Wye and crundale downs nature reserve dry valley in chalk down

 

Long man of Wilmington

 

Steve Bell chalk cartoon figure of John Major, south downs, Sussex

 

White horse in chalk, Cuckmere, Sussex

 

Cerne Abbas giant figure carved out of chalk down, Dorset

 

Chalk cliff plants, Dover

 

Transmitter castle hill Sussex

 

Ivinghoe beacon with storm clouds

 

Chalk grassland Old Winchester hill

 

cattle grazing chalk grassland Pulpit hill chilterns

 

Hawthorn in flower Dunstable downs

 

Chiltern hills east from near Ivinghoe, snow

 

Chiltern hills east from near Ivinghoe

 

Mist inversion Ivinghoe beacon, Chilterns

 

Wind erosion of sugar limestone soil

 

Dune slack with cottongrass, Kenfig, S. Wales

 

M40 motorway, north of Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire

 

Mist inversion Ivinghoe beacon, Chilterns

 

Eroded footpaths on chalk downland, Ivinghoe beacon

 

Surveying grassland, Cricklade meadow

 

Grassland surveying, Pilch field, Buckinghamshire

 

Ant hills Pilch field

 

overgrazed grassland with thistles, Peak District

 

Ridge and furrow Pilch field, Buckinghamshire

 

Meadows Bakewell, Peak District

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Harvesting, Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass, Rothamstead

 

Park Grass, Rothamstead

 

Park Grass, Rothamstead

 

Cobwebs on grass and mist, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex. High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex. High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex. High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex. High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales, south downs, Sussex. High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay turning with tractor, Sussex

 

ridge and furrow formations in grassland Avon Dassett

 

Ridge and furrow grassland, Northumberland

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Caltha palustris Marsh Marigold Cricklade

 

Cricklade species rich floodplain meadow with water and marsh marigold

 

Cricklade species rich floodplain meadow

 

Cricklade species rich floodplain meadow

 

Cricklade species rich floodplain meadow with snakes head fritillary and dandilion

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Mixed wildflowers Yarnton meadow

 

MG4 grassland with Succisa pratensis Devilsbit Scabious and Sanguisorba officinalis Great Burnet

 

MG4 grassland with Succisa pratensis Devilsbit Scabious and Sanguisorba officinalis Great Burnet

 

Mixed wild flowers Cricklade

 

Species rich meadow

 

Leucanthemum vulgare ox-eye daisy

 

Species rich flowery meadow Cricklade north meadow

 

Species rich flowery meadow Cricklade north meadow

 

Species rich flowery meadow Cricklade north meadow

 

Species rich flowery meadow Cricklade north meadow

 

Yarnton meadow Oxfordshire species rich grassland

 

Langdon beck YHA youth hostel Upper Teesdale with flowery meadow

 

Langdon beck YHA youth hostel Upper Teesdale with flowery meadow

 

Species rich meadows Upper Teesdale

 

Barn in species rich meadow Upper Teesdale

 

Leucanthemum vulgare Ox-eye Daisys

 

Quarry and farmland, Lake District. Multiple use countryside

 

Farmland patchwork Brecon, Wales

 

Farmland Weald Sussex

 

Fields and hedges with full grown trees Matlock, Peak District

 

Farmland near Woburn ploughed fields

 

Farmland near Woburn ploughed fields

 

Hedges

 

Furrows in soil. Farmland, Casle Acre, Norfolk

 

Ploughed farmland Tysoe, Warwickshire

 

Hedge snow. Buckinghamshire

 

Layed hedge at pilch field

 

Layed hedge at pilch field

 

Crataegus monogyna Hawthorn hedge poorly managed and overgazed

 

Farmland with pig arks, Hampshire

 

Farmland south downs, near Brighton, Sussex

 

Farmland south downs, near Brighton, Sussex

 

Fields divided up by stone walls Wensleydale

 

Fields divided up by stone walls Wensleydale

 

Farmland with sheep and grass near Wye, Kent

 

Bathford and Batheaston from Claverton down 1980 before major new road building

 

Brook village with countryside

 

Farmland looking west from the cotswolds, Gloucestershire

 

Farm and farmland, Cheltenham

 

Farm near Painswick, Gloucestershire

 

Farm near Snowdon, Wales

 

Farm, Lake District

 

Farm, Lake District

 

Farm, Lake District

 

Wasdale head campsite and fields

 

Farms and mine cottages near Reeth Yorkshire

 

Old mine shaft near Reeth Yorkshire

 

Disused tin mines and mine waste Cornwall

 

Old roller farm implement, in arable weeds, Chilterns

 

Pasture cows Peak District

 

Sheep downland

 

Chrysanthemum sagetum Corn Marigold

 

Wild flowers in field margin. Pitstone, Buckinghamshire

 

unsprayed field margin, poppies, Sussex

 

Opium poppy field, Hampshire

 

pea crop, Little Linford, north of Milton keynes

 

Brussels sprouts in snow, Bedfordshire

 

Conservation headland, Breckland

 

Linseed crop in flower

 

Linseed flowers and green seed capsules

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Hedge Chichley hill

 

Hedge and ploughed farmland Chichley

 

Broad beans in farmland Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Hawthorn, sheep, oilseed rape, blue sky, Ashridge

 

Farmland with oilseed rape Lacy Green, Buckinghamshire

 

Oilseed rape in flower with blue sky and fluffy white clouds but also woodland behind has been flattened by 1987 hurricane

 

Oilseed rape, pylon, blue sky

 

Fair weather cumulus clouds and oilseed rape, Warwickshire

 

Oilseed rape in full flower with blue sky

 

Papaver rhoeas Common Poppy

 

Papaver rhoeas Common Poppy

 

Poppy field

 

Papaver rhoeas Common Poppy

 

Trees in field with newly emerged cereal crop, Woburn

 

Seed drilling with tractor on south downs, Sussex

 

Seed drilling with tractor on south downs, Sussex

 

Seed drilling with tractor on south downs, Sussex

 

Crop spraying, Kent

 

Crop spraying