This week Class 4A have been exploring hedges as a habitat and we have been identifying all the plants we can find in and under the hedge next to the class 2 / 3 building.

Main hedge plants:

  • Hawthorn
  • Field maple 
  • Elderberry
  • Dog Rose

Plants and flowers at base of hedge

  • Lawn daisy
  • Common self heal
  • Brambles
  • Hedge woundwort
  • Large bindweed
  • Ribwort plantain
  • Purple toadflax
  • Marsh crane’s-bill
  • Bloody crane’s-bill
  • Catchweed Bedstraw
  • Corn cockle
  • Wood avens
  • Bush vetch
  • Great stinging nettle
  • Nipplewort
  • Herb Robert
  • Red Campion
  • Silver cinquefoil

Shrubs next to hedge

  • Bamboo
  • Butterfly bush