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FLORA SURVEY

The common names of the flora identified during a 2004 survey of the area are shown below:

Shrub/Tree Species

Alder
Apple
Ash
Beech
Bird Cherry
Blackberry
Blackthorn
Buddleia
Cherry
Cotoneaster
Elderberry
Gooseberry
Guelder Rose
Hawthorne
Hazel
Holly
Mountain Ash
Oak
Raspberry
Scots Pine
Shrub Rose
Silver Birch
Sorbus species
Swedish Whitebeam
Sycamore
Willow

Other Plant Notes

Foliose Lichen
Hair Cap Moss (Polytrichum commune)
Sphagnum Moss
Small fungi in grass

Herb Species

Autumn Hawkbit
Bilberry
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Black Knapweed
Broadleaved Dock
Celandine
Common Spotted Orchid
Comfrey
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle
Cuckoo Flower
Daisy
Dandylion
Devilsbit Scabious
English Bluebell
Forget-me-not
Goosegrass
Greater Plantain
Greater Willowherb
Greater Stitchwort
Heath Bedstraw
Heather
Herb Robert
Lesser Spearwort
Marsh Marigold
Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Vetchling
Common Mousear
Nettle
Pink Purslane
Pink Purslane white form
Ragwort
Red Clover
Rosebay Willowherb
Ribwort Plantain
Sheeps Sorrel
Sorrel
Sneezewort
Stinging Nettle
Tormentil
Wavy Bittercress
Welsh Poppy orange form
White Clover
Yellow Flag

Insects

Orange Tip Butterfly (eggs on cuckoo fl.)

Small Skipper

Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Bumble Bee

Pond Skater

Galls on oak and birch

Birds

Chaffinch
Blackcap
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Fieldfare
Jackdaw

Plants in garden area around the house

Alliums
Alchemilla
Berberis
Cotoneaster horizontalis
Dusty Miller (Senecio)
Fleabane (Inula)
Hebe
Honeysuckle
Hybrid Tea Rose
London Pride
Lilac
Mahonia
Montbretia
Ox-eye Daisy
Perennial Cornflower
Rose of Sharon
Snow in Summer
Spanish bluebell
Spirea
Bridewort
Tulip
Variegated Cotoneaster
Variegated Holly
Wilson's Honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida)

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