Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Intentions and definitions 10
5. An Introduction to the New Forest National Park
6. How the Open Forest works 14
7. Geology 17
8. A botanical overview 19
9. See for yourself 22
10. For the record 24
11. Lower plants 26
12. The Open Forest
13. The woods of the Open Forest 31
14. The Christmas Green Oaks 31
15. Woodland management 35
16. Ancient trees 37
17. Woodland wildflowers 43
18. Scrub
19. Brambles 53
20. Roses 55
21. Ferns 55
22. Heaths and Bogs
23. Drainage 60
24. Management 62
25. The marl heaths 66
26. The sandy heaths 68
27. Northern species of the Open Forest 73
28. Disturbance and upheavals on the heaths 77
29. Summer Lady’s-tresses: a national extinction 84
30. Cottongrasses and Beavers 88
31. Dwarf shrubs 91
32. Finding Early Gentians: X marks the spot 93
33. In amongst the Bracken 95
34. Grasslands
35. Lawns 109
36. Village Greens 110
37. Streamside lawns 120
38. Woodland lawns 124
39. The Re-seeds 128
40. Open Forest Ponds and Rivers
41. The rivers 130
42. The many names of the Lymington River 132
43. Forest ponds 136
44. Forest ponds and the Avon Valley 142
45. The Coastal Open Forest 148
46. The Coast
47. The Coast: an introduction 158
48. Below the tide 159
49. The wooded marsh 162
50. Saltmarsh and strandline 165
51. A life in gravel 168
52. Hurst Spit: Ray and Parkinson 172
53. Tom Tiddler’s Ground 180
54. Mulberrys, sauce and spider-orchids 182
55. Cultivation and cliffs 184
56. Grazing marshes 186
57. The Enclosed Countryside
58. Within the hedges 191
59. Sowley Pond 199
60. Suburban life 201
61. The Avon Valley 202
62. Arable losses 205
63. Looking forward 208
64. Appendix 1 Find out more 216
65. Appendix 2 A list of the rare, scarce and Red List vascular plants currently found within the New Forest National Park 222
66. Appendix 3 Some of the more frequently found plants in selected habitats around the New Forest 226
67. Appendix 4 Gazetteer of place names referred to in the text 227
68. Appendix 5 New Forest National Park: Facts and Figures 230
69. Appendix 6 Forest Code (Out and About) 231
70. Acknowledgements 232
71. Photographic and artwork credits 234
72. Index of English and Scientific Names 238
73. Index of People’s Names This 244