We rather surprised ourselves: whilst walking from Home to Bostall Heath, we spotted thirty-plus Wild Flower &c. species (growing on the Pavements, in Roadside Gutters, in Private Gardens and the Grounds of St Andrew's Church) viz.
Wood Avens
Four-Leaved Allseed
Rue-Leaved Saxifrage
Four-Leaved Allseed
Rue-Leaved Saxifrage
Common Chickweed
Thale Cress
Common Field-Speedwell
Hairy Bittercress (subsequently seeing Wavy Bittercress on Bostall Heath)
Annual Meadow Grass
Lesser Swinecress
Cleavers
Fairy-Purses (aka Shepherd's-Purse)
Red Dead-Nettle
Jersey Cudweed
Grape Hyacinth
Groundsel
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax viz.
Common Whitlowgrass
Petty Spurge
Sweet Violet
Shining Crane's-Bill
Spotted Medick
Common Mallow
Purple-Leaved Procumbent Yellow-Sorrel
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Daisy
Dandelion
Ivy-Leaved Speedwell
Sow-Thistle
Mouse-Ear Hawkweed
Purple Loosestrife
and Annual Mercury
On the Heath there were lots of Hairy-Footed Flower-Bees, a few Buff-Tailed Bumblebees and a Small White Butterfly.
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