Cows love grass and our fields are just full of different sorts of grass.





Amongst others:

But if we look more closely we can also see lots of other plants.... so far we have counted more than 130 different sorts of plants (“species”) in our fields. Here are just four of them:

Common stork’s-bill (Erodium cicutarium)



Herb Bennet  (Geum urbanum)



Bugle (Ajuga repens)



Common mallow (Malva sylvestris)



Not all these plants are in all the fields and some only grow and flower at certains times of the year.

Wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)             
(Spring)



Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera)
(may-june)




But there are some you can see at almost any time of the year, such as the daisy (Bellis perennis)




There are even some poisonous plants in our fields… but cows tend to avoid them!

Thorn apple       
Datura stramonium



Black nightshade
Solanum nigrum



There are many hedges and spinneys around our fields, with trees, shrubs, undergrowth and brambles.

English oak Quercus robur
Holm oak Quercus ilex
Ash Fraxinus angustifolia
Hazel Corylus avellana
Sweet chestnut Castanea sativa
Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna

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