Planet PK

This month is #NoMowMay! If you have a lawn, one of the most beneficial things you can do for wildlife is to it go wild. Wild lawns encourage wildflowers, insect life, song birds and mammals to thrive in your garden 🌱 🌸🐞🐝🦔 #PlanetPK

Today’s Clay Play workshop is at 1pm-3pm! 📍 @PKPorthcurno Clore learning Space All welcome! 💓

In our last #PlanetPKChampions session we made this fungi web to explore the hidden world of mycelium! Mycelium connects most of the plants and fungi in the world, using tiny communicative threads that can send and receive information, food and resources. #PlanetPK

Booking essential but free - nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cornwall…

Did you know that spiders great communicators?! Spider webs have been described as ‘orchestras of information’. Spiders use them to transmit and receive knowledge. They send signals each other and gain understanding of their surroundings with web vibrations! 🕷️ 🕸️❤️ #PlanetPK

. @nationaltrust have introduced Dartmoor Ponies to land above @pkporthcurno for conservation grazing. Their trampling & nibbling means aggressive species like bracken and coarse grasses don't dominate - so wildflowers can thrive, creating more diverse habitat🐴 📷Chris Brown

Happy Valentine’s Day from Planet PK! ❤️ We hope you all had a good day spent with loved ones or out walking in nature! It was misty and cool day here in the Valley, but still a beautiful day to get outside and walk across the coast path. ☔️ #PlanetPK #Porthcurno

Oak gall wasps excrete a chemical into oak trees which disrupts with the normal cell growth, creating harmless, hard spheres which they use to encase their eggs. Once used, they will turn a brown colour and can be used to make environmentally friendly dyes! Photo: @mvcushla

We’re delighted to share that PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications will reopen on Saturday 27 January. Thank you for your patience; we can’t wait to welcome you back through our doors! To plan your visit, go to our website: pkporthcurno.com/visit/visiting…

This weekend is the @Natures_Voice #BigGardenBirdWatch, the worlds biggest wildlife survey! This survey is vital for understanding how birds are faring in the current climate. Go to their website to take part! 🦅 ❤️ Photo: Ellie Smart rspb.org.uk/whats-happenin… #PlanetPK

It’s been a cold couple of weeks in PK, beautiful layers of hoarfrost have been blanketing the plants in the @pkporthcurno gardens. Hoarfrost forms on cool, clear nights. ‘Hoar’ comes from old English and means old age, as the wispy frost that forms looks like a grey beard! ❄️

Did you know that ladybirds live through winter? Unlike many other insects, these hardy beetles don’t mind the cold. Amazingly, they have the ability to lower their heart rate and enter a state of suspended animation until the warmer seasons. 🐞 ❤️

Happy new year! We hope that you all had a good Christmas, and spend much of the next year outside enjoying nature! 🌱 Photo: Liam Alford #PlanetPK

Join us Fri 8th December for our Christmas switch-on featuring 'Winter Windows' artwork by local schools Sennen @StLevanSchool @StBuryanAcademy @Pendeen_Primary @MouseholeSch, live Cornish Carols by Boilerhouse, festive food & drink + more! Free to all: pkporthcurno.com/events/christm…

There’s plenty of things we can do to help out animals in autumn: 🦅 Provide nest boxes for birds 🦔 Leave piles of leaves for hedgehogs to use for hibernation 🎃 Dont leave your pumpkins out for mammals to eat, they upset the delicate ecosystems woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2022/10/1…

New vacancy! We are recruiting for a Project Manager to lead the delivery of the Monumental Improvement project. Support heritage and nurture the future of Scheduled Monument sites across Cornwall's protected landscape. Apply here: bit.ly/3OT6yQT #HeritageJobs

Did you know that 92% of plants interact with fungi? 🍄 Through tiny root structures called mycorrhiza, fungi can bring water and minerals from further away back to plants, trading it with them for nutrients. #PlanetPK

We are proud to stock @TwoFarmersHfd crisps, winners of this year's Sustainability Pioneer Award in Cafe PK & our Koffi PK horsebox💚

We are now accepting the @jamandmeme Pard Card! 10% off museum entry, gift shop, Cafe PK & Koffi PK horsebox for Pard Card holders and up to 4 guests! pardcard.com

Did you know that flowers can hear buzzing bees? 🐝 👂 Upon hearing insects buzzing near them, plants can produce greater amounts of sweeter nectar within just three minutes, allowing them to attract more insects.🐞 🐛 🦋 Photos: Maeve Cushla #PlanetPK #Porthcurno