More than Snowdrops on Trail

The Snowdrop Trail at Valleyfield Woodland Park is worth exploring at any time of the year, not just during February/March when the snowdrops are blooming.

As the snowdrops start to fade, the white spiky flower heads of butterbur take their place.
These are quickly followed by lesser celandines, wild garlic (ransoms) and wood anemones.

Other parts of the wood are rich in bluebells. Together they provide a succession of colour and interest until early summer when the tree canopy of new leaves obscures the light and the carpet-forming plants of the forest floor switch to putting energy back into their underground bulbs or rhizomes, ready for the following year. However flowers are still abundant throughout the summer in clearings and at the woodland edges.

There is also a great variety of birdlife to be seen and well as the grey squirrel and various other small animals.

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