We have many different examples of habitats at Wolseley, one that we have created is a small area of limestone habitat. We have made this opposite a small area of heathland and acidic habitat. Limestone is calcareous and is chemically the opposite to the sandstone in the heathland. You wouldn't normally find these two habitats so close together but ours has been made like this to show the difference in plant life that grows over different rocks.

The limestone habitat was built by the volunteers who help manage the Wolseley Centre, it consists of crushed limestone (hardcore) and limestone blocks, some of these have fossils in, see if you can find any next time you visit!

The area has been planted with typical limestone wildflowers and seeded with grasses that you'd normally find growing amongst them. Summer is the best time to see the plants in flower.