Shenley ParkShenley Park
In the Orchard each spring you will find a carpet of cowslips.
Through a reduced grass cutting programme these flowers have been allowed to flourish.
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Cowslips |
Shortly after the cowslips flower the apple trees then come into blossom.
Both are a wonderful sight not to be missed.
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Apple Blossom |
In 2006 a Bird Survey was carried out for the whole of Shenley Park by Jenny Hill and Peter Draper of the local Watford RSPB group. The following table shows the species you are most likely to find around the Orchard and Meadow.
Due to the amount of mature trees both within the Park and the surrounding areas we attract a diversity of birds.
Meadow Pippit |
Blue tit |
Green woodpecker |
Great tit |
Great Spotted Woodpecker |
Long-tailed tit |
Pied Wagtail |
Nuthatch |
Wren |
Starling |
Dunnock |
Chaffinch |
Robin |
Greenfinch |
Blackbird |
Goldfinch |
Fieldfare (*) |
Siskin (*) |
Redwing (*) |
Linnet |
Coal tit |
Bullfinch |
In the Meadow there are at least 85 different species of wild flowers and grasses. Some of the more common species are found in the table below.
Latin name |
Common name |
Latin name |
Common name |
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Achillea millefollum |
Yarrow |
Lamium album |
White dead nettle |
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Ajuga reptans |
(Bugle) |
Leucanthemum vulgare |
(Ox-eye daisy) |
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Arum maculatum |
(Cuckoo Pint) |
Potentilla anserine |
(Silver weed) |
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Cardamine pratensis |
(Lady Smock) |
Potentilla erceta |
(Tormentil) |
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Centauren cyanus |
(Cornflower) |
Potentilla reptans |
(Creeping Cinquefoil) |
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Centauren nigra |
(Common knapweed) |
Prunella vulagaris |
(Self Heal) |
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Digitalis purpurea |
Foxglove |
Ranunculus acris |
Meadow buttercup |
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Fillipendula ulmaria |
Meadow-sweet |
Ranunculus repens |
Creeping buttercup |
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Galium aparine |
Goosegrass |
Teraxacum officinale |
Dandelion |
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Galium vernum |
Lady’s Bedstraw |
Trifolium pratense |
Red Clover |
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Hieracium sect vulgaten |
Hawkweed |
Trifolium repens |
White Clover |
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Hypericum tetrapterum |
St John’s Wort |
Veronica chaemaedrys |
Germander Speedwell |
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Knautica arvensis |
Field scabious |
Vicia cracca |
Tufterd Vetch |
Both the Orchard and the Meadow upkeep is helped through funding by the Countryside Stewardship scheme.
In the Meadow there are at least 85 different species of wild flowers and grasses.
Some of the more common species are listed below.