Mynwent Aberdar

From spring through to early autumn, the grassland blooms with flowers. Amongst the grasses and rushes, enjoy the yellow of greater and common bird’s-foot trefoil, purple black knapweed, the burgundy of greater burnet, pink ragged robin, the cream of meadowsweet and delicate white flowers of marsh bedstraw. Late summer brings a blue-purple haze of devil’s-bit scabious flowers and in autumn, the reds, oranges and yellows of waxcap fungi.

Here you’ll find common spotted and southern marsh orchids, narrow-bordered five-spot burnet moths, southern hawker dragonflies, small heath, ringlet and, if you’re lucky, marsh fritillary butterflies. Bullfinches and linnets feed on the abundance of wildflower seeds. At dusk bats forage, slugs and snails attract hedgehogs and barn owls hunt voles in the twilight.