New life.

The red basal leaves of Rue Leaved Saxifrage make a pleasing contrast to the green moss and the white of the limestone pavement in the Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve.

The Pavement is some of the best of its kind in the country. Before 1977 it was being destroyed and taken for garden rockeries. In that year what remained was given legal protection and it became the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Reserve.

It is a wonderful place for wildlife and is now a site for the restoration of the native Lady’s Slipper Orchid.