
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