Biodiversity – how many plant species on my plot

by | Mar 6, 2021 | The Hive

My goal is to have a minimum of 250 species. Here is what I have so far:

  1. Apples
  2. Ash
  3. Bamboo – Black Pearl  Yellow Bamboo
  4. Beeche
  5. Prunus Padus – Birthday Cherry
  6. Cherry 
  7. Cobnuts
  8. Cotinus Coggygria – Smoke tree
  9. Field Maple
  10. Grange
  11. Hawthorn
  12. Holly
  13. Leylandii
  14. Laurel
  15. Lemon
  16. Oak
  17. Parrotia Persica – Persian Ironwood
  18. Pear
  19. Plum
  20. Pear
  21. Scots pine tree
  22. Standard photinia tree
  23. Wild Plum
  24. Walnut – juglans regia
  25. Quince
  26. Thuja Plicata x 3 – Western RedCedar
  27. Tree from Dave Davice’s land

Shrubs/bushes

  1. Bay tree
  2. Black thorn – prunus spinosa
  3. Salix flamingo
  4. Blueberry
  5. Blackthorn
  6. Blackcurrant
  7. Buddleia – butterfly bush
  8. Brunnera ‘Alexander’s Great’
  9. Comfrey @@@@@@
  10. Cotoneaster
  11. Elderflower tree
  12. Rosa Canina – Dog Rose
  13. Dogwood
  14. Gooseberry
  15. Grapevine
  16. Gunnera Manicata
  1. Hazel
  2. Hebe
  3. Honeysuckle
  4. Ivy
  5. Monarda Didyma
  6. Raspberry 
  7. Rododendron
  8. Rosehip
  9. Lilac
  10. Roses
  11. Strawberries
  12. Willow

Bulbs

  1. Daffodils
  2. Snowdrops
  3. Tulips
  4. Winter aconite (Heranthis hyemalis

Herbs

  1.  Majoran
  2. Mint
  3. Sage
  4. Rosemary
  5. Rhubarb
  6. Thyme

Misc

  1.  Dandelion
  2. Buttercups
  3. lacy phacelia

Aquatic

  1. Water lily
  2. Lesser bulrush Typha angustifolia brown – Marsh plant, Water plant
  3.  Caltha palustris polypetela
  4. Yellow iris pseudacorus yellow – Marsh plant, waterside plant
  5. Stratiotes aloides – Water Soldier