nutmeg's Woodland wildlife garden

Garden Type: Native | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Combination I'm Organic!

When I moved to this house in 1997, this part of the garden was described as a water meadow. It slopes gently down to a stream, and a natural pond is located along one side. The previous owners had planted quite a lot of trees – most were still small when I first saw them – but they have shot up, so the garden is far more like a small woodland than a meadow.

I’ve added the pond as garden in its own right and will concentrate on the wooded area here.

In the late winter and spring, the ground has a carpet of snowdrops, followed by daffodils, primroses, a few bluebells (which just appeared, but I don’t think they’re native) and cowslips.

Plantings

Bluebell

Hyacinthoides non-scripta

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Cuckoo Pint

Arum maculatum
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Stinking hellebore

Helleborus foetidus
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Daffodil

Narcissus
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Cowslip

Primula veris
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Solomon's Seal

Polygonatum x hybridum
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Silver birch

Betula pendula

There are several silver birch trees in the gar...
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Alder

Alnus glutinosa
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Butterbur

Petasites

Grows around the pond - flowers March/April.
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Walnut

Juglans
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Hazel

Corylus avellana
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Snowdrops

Galanthus nivalis
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Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna

This is the dominant plant in the hedges border...
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Elder

Sambucus nigra
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Winter aconite

Eranthis hyemalis
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