Hopyard Hay Meadow is home to a glorious mix of wildflowers surrounded by ancient hedgerows.

A wander through Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit in high summer will reveal a riot of colour, with dozens of butterflies fluttering around an explosion of wildflowers in some of the sheltered spots and…

If you’re out walking in the Lower Aire Valley, pay a visit to Kippax Meadows, an accessible reserve with great potential and already home to a number of uncommon plants.

It doesn’t have to be the Summer of Love to enjoy an explosion of flower power. Let Ledsham Bank’s vivid wildflower display blow your mind this June or July!

With three types of grassland close together, sporting a profusion of plants, early summer at Maltby Low Common is paradise for insects and botanists

Famed for its wetland birds including bitterns and marsh harriers, explore the mosaic of habitats and enjoy the stunning vistas at Potteric Carr.

Created from the footprint of a working quarry, Ripon City Wetlands nature reserve is a thriving home for a range of birds and other wildlife.

You may see bitterns, avocets, little ringed…

Enjoy colourful pasture where butterflies feed on the purple starbursts of greater knapweed flower heads and birds sing from the scrub edge on the bank top.

‘Impressive’ and ‘dramatic’ are two words you could use to describe this reserve on the western slopes of Ingleborough, but ‘WOW!’ should do the trick.

A fabulous large heathland close to York where the pink heads and grey green leaves of cross-leaved heath intermingle with the purple spikes and green foliage of ling heather. Common lizards bask…