Mynwent Ty Rhiw

Spring and summer are when the cemetery flourishes with beautiful grassland wildflowers, and hums with bees and hoverflies. In the autumn the cemetery is a superb place for grassland fungi and in the winter, long-tailed tits and goldcrests feed in the trees.

Here you’ll find the dainty yellow flowers of bird’s-foot trefoil, cowslip, creeping buttercup, common cat’s-ear, and dandelion. The delicate pale pink of cuckooflower, also known as lady’s smock, is the larval food plant of the orange-tip butterfly. Green woodpeckers, with their red and black heads and green and yellow bodies, love to feed on ants and can be heard ‘laughing’ from the trees. Blackening and parrot waxcaps, pink domecaps, clubs and bonnets are just some of the special grassland fungi species that call Ty Rhiw Cemetery their home.