Trees & Flowers
A wide variety of Trees, Flowers and Shrubs make up the wooded hillsides of the Valley, from giant old oaks through to small young saplings.

Marsh-marigold
A brilliant golden flower with glossy green leaves.  Can be seen flowering as early as March and well into summer.  Commonly known as Kingcup, after the Old English cop, meaning a ‘button’ or ‘stud’ worn by kings.

The Snowdrop is known as ‘snow-piercer’, because you can often see the familiar flowers in snowy February.  It was also known as ‘the fair maiden of February’. On the 2nd February village maidens would gather bunches of snowdrops and wear them as a symbol of purity.

Yellow Iris

Yellow iris grow in wet ground or shallow water, in marshes, woods, near rivers and streams, flowering from May until July. First used as a heraldic emblem by Clovis, king of the Franks in the late 5th century. Six centuries later it was used in the fleur-de-lys of Louis VII.