WINTER: In December and January the cemetery is quite bleak, but it has a unique stark beauty and is a peaceful place to go for a stroll. The vegetation is low and it is easier to get around especially to the back which towards the summer gets very overgrown with bramble and ivy. Although winter and the trees are bare, flocks of birds feeding on the few insects they can find are seen in the high branches of the Sycamores. Mixed flock include Long Tailed Tits, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Treecreepers and Goldcrests. Redwing are another common visitor during the winter.
SPRING: Springtime brings with it the hope for warmer weather and the likelihood of seeing wild flowers. The spring flowers take the opportunity to flourish before the tree canopy blocks off light and other vegetation takes over. The Snowdrops are the first to come out, followed by Primroses, Daffodils and later on Hybrid Garden Bluebell, Cowslips and False Oxlips (a hybrid of Primrose and cowslip).
By July plant growth has usually overwhelmed the graveyard making it a wild an mysterious. Tall stands of Nettle and Hogweed shield clearings stagged lines of headstones.
The SW corner of the Graveyard in July
