Flowers of the Forest
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Flowers of the Forest

Plants and People in the New Forest National Park

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Flowers of the Forest

Plants and People in the New Forest National Park

About this book

This book explores the botanical richness and cultural heritage of the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. The New Forest has become an exceptional area for wildflowers, many of which were once common throughout the lowlands of Britain.



The Forest enjoys strong populations of many special wildflowers because it retains a living tradition of free-ranging domestic animals grazing its coastland, extensive commons, and village greens. This book is an exploration of how the wildlife of the Forest is the natural expression of the lives and economy of the people of the Forest.


  • An introduction to the New Forest and how its commoning economy works

  • A description of the principal habitats of the Forest and how they relate to one another

  • Accounts of the people who have explored the Forest for wildflowers from the early 17th century to the present

  • Descriptions of more than 100 species of the rarer flowering plants and ferns currently known from the National Park, many of which are nationally or internationally rare, scarce, or threatened

  • An account of Forest conservation issues by someone who has participated in the life of the Forest for more than 20 years

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyrights Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Intentions and definitions
  8. An Introduction to the New Forest National Park
  9. How the Open Forest works
  10. Geology
  11. A botanical overview
  12. See for yourself
  13. For the record
  14. Lower plants
  15. The Open Forest
  16. The woods of the Open Forest
  17. The Christmas Green Oaks
  18. Woodland management
  19. Ancient trees
  20. Woodland wildflowers
  21. Scrub
  22. Brambles
  23. Roses
  24. Ferns
  25. Heaths and Bogs
  26. Drainage
  27. Management
  28. The marl heaths
  29. The sandy heaths
  30. Northern species of the Open Forest
  31. Disturbance and upheavals on the heaths
  32. Summer Lady’s-tresses: a national extinction
  33. Cottongrasses and Beavers
  34. Dwarf shrubs
  35. Finding Early Gentians: X marks the spot
  36. In amongst the Bracken
  37. Grasslands
  38. Lawns
  39. Village greens
  40. Streamside lawns
  41. Woodland lawns
  42. The Re-seeds
  43. Open Forest Ponds and Rivers
  44. The rivers
  45. The many names of the Lymington River
  46. Forest ponds
  47. Forest ponds and the Avon Valley
  48. The Coastal Open Forest
  49. The Coast
  50. The Coast: an introduction
  51. Below the tide
  52. The wooded marsh
  53. Saltmarsh and strandline
  54. A life in gravel
  55. Hurst Spit: Ray and Parkinson
  56. Tom Tiddler’s Ground
  57. Mulberrys, sauce and spider-orchids
  58. Cultivation and cliffs
  59. Grazing marshes
  60. The Enclosed Countryside
  61. Within the hedges
  62. Sowley Pond
  63. Suburban life
  64. The Avon Valley
  65. Arable losses
  66. Looking forward
  67. Appendix 1: Find out more
  68. References
  69. Appendix 2: A list of the rare, scarce and Red List vascular plants currently found within the New Forest National Park
  70. Appendix 3: Some of the more frequently found plants in selected habitats around the New Forest
  71. Appendix 4: Gazetteer of place names referred to in the text
  72. Appendix 5: New Forest National Park: Facts and Figures
  73. Appendix 6: Forest Code
  74. Acknowledgements
  75. Photographic and artwork credits
  76. Index of English and Scientific Names
  77. Index of People’s Names