Willamson's Weekly, nature notes with Richard Williamson

I LIVE in the middle of a Sussex coppice wood which grows about 400 different species of wild flowers, shrubs and ghrasses. It is an ancient coppice system: oaks, ash and chestnut standards with an under storey of hazel bushes.

By The Newsroom

Published 6th Mar 2007, 15:17 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:52 BST

Goodness knows when it was all planted like this, probably 600 years ago.

The whole business has been perfect for growing wild flowers.

Look carefully in the photograph and you will see three different flowers. They were all growing on my front lawn, sorry, hay meadow. On your left primroses, on your right cowslips, in the middle a cross between the two. Know in the trade as false oxlip.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette March 7

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