Local Plants

Found this article on the BBC Gardeners' World blog, which (in turn) links to a Natural History Museum site where you can find out the plants local not to your country, not to your region, nor even your town, but to your postcode.

Shucks.

In addition to a large number of plants not considered 'garden worthy', there are a few interesting finds:

• Common poppy, which I've seen about, but not many. Would be nice to try, alongside some not-so-common poppies;
• Crane's Bill (cut-leaved, meadow, and dove's-foot), which a neighbour has in profusion, and is rather pretty;
• Autumn Gentian;
• Foxglove, which--again--the same neighbour grows plentifully, and which does rather well;
• Harebell;
• Honeysuckle, hop, and ivy (just as well, as the first and third are quite popular with us!);
  
• Daffodil;
• Yellow iris;
• Wild pansy;
• Wild strawberry, so hopefully the cultivars will do well;
• Crab apple (ditto re. cultivars);
• Elder and holly (absolutely no surprise there, as the moorland around us is studded with both);
• Yellow loosestrife (so, again, hopefully the cultivated Lysimachias will thrive);
• Common comfrey (useful for green manure/plant food purposes!);
• Bilberry, gooseberry, bramble, raspberry, which all bodes well for the fruit bushes;
• Alder, ash, beech, field maple, hornbeam, oak, rowan, silver birch, white willow and wild cherry are all 'native', which pretty much covers what's already present, tree-wise.

Fascinating stuff: stick your postcode in and see the results!