I have noticed an abundance of diversity in plant, insect, and animal life, and I am unable to identify much of what I see, but I have listed here what I can identify. There’s especially an abundance of wild grasses and insects, I have noticed that when the valley is left wild, and the umbellifers grow to flower, and the brambles and thistles take over, and the vegetation is dense the valley hums and buzzes with wildlife. It make me think that careful consideration needs to be given to the type of interventions to the bottom valley.

 

Wildlife Sightings

Barn Owl

Bee

Blackbird

Blue Tit

Crow

Damselfly

Dragon Fly

Field Mice

Great Tit

Green Lizard

Herron

House Martin

Marsh Harrier

Moorhen

Oil Beatle

Rabbit

Rat

Robin

Salamanda

Seagull

Short Eared Bat

Slow Worm

Thrush

Toad

Vole

Wild ducks

Plantlife existing

Apples tree - various

Artemisia

Bamboo

Blackberry

Bracken - dominant

Californian Poppy

Calla lilies

Coltsfoot

Dadylily

Dalia

Dock

Elaeagnus × ebbingei

Elderberry

Fuchsia

Gorse

Heather

Hebe

Hemlock - dominant

Hogweed

Hydrangea

Ivy

Mallow

Nettles - dominant

Pear tree

Privet

Ragwort

Ribwort Plantain

Rose

Sorrel

Sycamore

Viburnum

Willow

Yarrow

Urtica dioica  Common Nettle

Stellaria media  Common Chickweed

Gnaphalium undulatum  

Cape Cudweed

Rumex acetosa  Common Sorrel

Cerastium fontanum  Common Mouse-ear

Crepis capillaris  Smooth Hawks-beard

Solanum nigrum  Black Nightshade

Galium aparine  Cleavers

Geranium molle  Doves-foot Cranes-bill

Oenanthe crocata  Hemlock Water-dropwort

Acer pseudoplatanus  Sycamore

Bellis perennis  Daisy

Ranunculus repens  Creeping Buttercup

Ulex europaeus  Gorse

Taraxacum  Dandelion

Dactylis glomerata  Cocks-foot

Agrostis capillaris  Common Bent

Sonchus oleraceus  Smooth Sow-thistle

Arctium minus minus  Lesser Burdock

Scrophularia scorodonia  Balm-leaved Figwort

Cirsium vulgare  Spear Thistle

Sonchus asper  Prickly Sow-thistle

Artemisia vulgaris  Mugwort

Rumex obtusifolius  Broad-leaved Dock

Agave americana  Century Plant

Juncus effusus  Soft-rush

Stachys sylvatica  Hedge Woundwort

Nasturtium officinale  Watercress

Callitriche stagnalis  Common Water-starwort

Senecio jacobaea  Common Ragwort

Silene dioica  Red Campion

Mercurialis annua  Annual Mercury

Umbilicus rupestris  Navelwort

Parietaria judaica  Pellitory-of-the-wall

Conyza floribunda  Bilbao Fleabane

Plantago major major  Greater Plantain

Heracleum sphondylium  Hogweed

Hydrangea macrophylla  

Hydrangea Glechoma hederacea  Ground-ivy

Galinsoga parviflora  Gallant-soldier

Castanea sativa  Sweet Chestnut

Hedera hibernica  Atlantic Ivy

Claytonia perfoliata  Springbeauty

Urtica urens  Small Nettle

Senecio vulgaris  Groundsel

Chenopodium murale  Nettle-leaved Goosefoot Euphorbia peplus  Petty Spurge

Foeniculum vulgare  fennel

Atriplex prostrata  spear-leaved orache

Spergula arvensis  Corn Spurrey

Capsella bursa-pastoris  Shepherd's Purse

Nicandra physalodes  Apple-of-Peru

Plantago lanceolata  Ribwort Plantain

Lamium purpureum  Red Dead-nettle

Plantago coronopus  bucks-horn plantain

Medicago arabica  Spotted Medick

Juncus bufonius  Toad Rush

Datura stramonium  Thorn-apple

Malva sylvestris  Common Mallow

Poa infirma  Early Meadow-grass

Erodium moschatum  Musk Storks-bill

Spergularia rubra  Sand Spurrey

Fumaria capreolata  White Ramping-fumitory

Helminthotheca echioides  Bristly Ox-tongue

Hypochaeris radicata  Cats-ear

Polycarpon tetraphyllum  Four-leaved Allseed

Cirsium arvense  Creeping Thistle

Borago officinalis  Borage

Calendula officinalis  Pot Marigold

Tripleurospermum inodorum  Scentless Mayweed

Digitaria sanguinalis  Hairy Finger-grass

Cirsium vulgare  Spear Thistle

Fumaria muralis  Common Ramping-fumitory

Stachys arvensis  Field Woundwort

Conyza bonariensis  Argentine Fleabane

Leucanthemum vulgare  Oxeye Daisy

Veronica persica  Common Field-speedwell

Verbena bonariensis  

Argentine Vervain





We have added

Agapanthus

Akebia

Apricot

Beans

Birdsfoot trefoil

Brassica

Buddlieu

Burnet forage herb

Borage

Cherry

Clover

Comfrey

Common Sorrel

Cocksfoot

Corn Flowers

Corn

Damson

Echium

Echinacea

Edelweiss

Endurance ribgrass (plantain)

Fennel

Fig

Gogi

Heather

Jerusalem Artichoke

Kiwifruit

Kora tall fescue

Lesser Knapweed

Lupins

Marigold

Meadow fescue

Mint

Nasturtium

Oak

Peach

Perennial ryegrass

Red Clover

Rhubarb

Sainfoin

Salvia

Sheeps Parsley forage herb

Succulents

Sunflowers

Sweet Clover

Tamarix

Timothy

Vetch

Victoria Plum

Wild Strawberry

Wisteria

Yazu

Zinnia