Long Mead Farm and Local Wildlife Site
  Long Mead County Wildlife Site
  • Long Mead
    • The Farm
    • Our Habitats >
      • The hay meadow
      • The orchard >
        • Find the stories of the orchard trees
      • The river and reed bed
      • The fuel copse
    • Our plants
    • Collaborations
    • Long Mead Foundation
  • THAMES VALLEY WILDFLOWER MEADOW RESTORATION PROJECT
    • Meadow Restoration: step by step
  • Research
    • Soil Carbon
    • Invertebrate Diversity
    • Botanical Surveys
    • Wildlife surveys >
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      • Map of Records
  • Outreach
    • Care Farming
    • NATURE RECOVERY NETWORK
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        • Long Mead and the National Curriculum
        • Long Mead and History >
          • Famous Eynsham Apple Growers
          • Water meadows in history
          • Long Mead and River Thames before Tudor times
          • Swinford Toll Bridge and highwaymen: Tom, Dick and Harry
          • The Thames at Long Mead in literature
          • Risk Assessment of Long Mead
          • The Countryside Code
    • Worshops/Training >
      • Meadow Restoration
      • Teachers Workshops
      • Hedge-laying
      • Community Meadows
      • Art and Science

Botanical surveys

Botanical surveys are critical for the conservation and restoration of wildflower floodplain meadows as we can only protect what we know is there. In the long term, they provide indication of how well the restoration process is working. At Christ Church Meadows, the baseline botanical survey prior to restoration in 2020 was led by Professor Stephen Harris and included members of Christ Church, the Oxford Botanical Gardens and TVWMRP. The same group has repeated the survey in 2021 to determine the species that have emerged so far from the green hay spreading. Further upstream at Pinkhill Farm, our baseline botanical surveys were undertaken by members of the Corallian Group: Sally Abbey, Frances Watkins, Susan Erskine, Sue Helm and Barbara Spence. We are extremely grateful to all our botanists. 

Contact; Catriona Bass                               

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LONG MEAD FOUNDATION (Charity number 1196294): Email longmeadfoundation@gmail.com
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