How many did you say?

I've often thought to myself it would be good/interesting to actually record all the plants in the garden here. Not because any of them are special in botanical or gardening terms but because it would just be interesting to see how many there are - the diversity - which is not really anything to do with planting or planning.

So I went round with a pen and pad of paper. I've included everything - trees, shrubs, plants, vegetables, wild plants, weeds. So far I've counted 200 different ones (on about a fifth of an acre). Some I have never known the names off and I will (perhaps) make an effort to identify and name them.

I also thought it would be  rather wonderful (but something of an effort on a day when my energies have been going elsewhere) to take a leaf or flower or fruit bud (there's one I hadn't thought of - the plum tree - that's at least 201) and lay them all out on the big oak table and take a shot of them.

It reminds me of Elizabeth Blackadder's lovely spare paintings of flowers and plants.

This could almost be a botanical Blip challenge?

My next task is simply to list the names. I'm now up to 247 give or take.

Here's the list so far (with plenty mispellings)

Old Man’s Beard/Traveller's Joy
Japanese (?) Spindle
Shrimp Plant (something Formosa)
Forget me not
Silverweed or Creeping Cinquefoil
Ragged Robin
Cherry pie Plant - Hemp Agrimony
Ox-eye daisy
Big thistle (Scotch Thistle)
Nettle
Wild Cherry
Privet
Hellebore  - Poisonous plant on bank
Privet (evergreen)
Maidenhead Fern
Buddleia
3rd Fern
4th Fern
Autoire succulent (from SW France)
Ground cover geranium (pink)Jasmine
Sitka Spruce
Rose
Lady’s Bedstraw
Hollyhock
Scarlet Pimpernel
Russian Vine
Prickly Ox Tongue
Herb Robert or Common Stork’s Bill
Quaking Grass
Berbaris
Leylandii
Monterrey Cyprus
Beech
Viburnum (white flowered)
Comfrey
Palla Rossa
Radicchio
Purple Cabbage
Other cabbage?
Peach Tree
Cosmos
Grape
Valerian
Dogwood
Wild Daisy
Creeping Buttercup
Runner Beans
Garlic
Snowberry
Laburnum
Evergreen Bugloss
Viper’s Bugloss
Euphorbia (Mediterranean)
Laurel
Echinops
Shiny leaf shrub with black berries
Everlasting Pea
Purple flowered tall spreading weed
Loganberry
Parsnip
Coriander
Beetroot
Leek
Chard
Carrot
Mustard Leaves
Rocket
Little Gem
Another lettuce – oakleaf
Sprouting Broccoli
Corn
French Beans
Tomatoes (seven varieties)
Chili peppers (3 varieties)
Celeriac
Squash (2 varieties)
Cucumbers
Courgettes
Hawthorn
Forsythia
Maple
Pansy
Orange leaved shade/chalk lover
Deadly night shade
Perennial Cornflower
Parsly
Iris – black
Blue profuse lilly thing
Thyme
Chives
Ceanothus
Tasmarisk
Viburnum Bodnantensi
Sumac -
Holly
Elder
Spreading blue flower – purple dead nettle
Sage
Winter Heliotrope
Bay
Mock Orange
Lavatera
Ash
Hebe (two varieties)
Gooseberry
Fuschia (3 varieties)
Balc currant
Red currant
Japonica
Mahonia - Spiky Berry Thing
Wylegia
Cowslip
Lungwort
Quince
Mullein
Peony Tree
Sweet William
Senechio
Anemone
NZ Flax
Apple
Plum
Tutsan
Borage
Violets
White winter Flower shrub
Curry Plant
Creeping Stonecrop - Succulent with red flower
Lambs Ear
Rosemary (2 varieties)
Lilac (miniature and cream)
Cistus (white)
Ground Elder
Pinks
Tulips
Poppy (at least 3 varieties)
Thrift
Mignonette
Bergenia - Pink winter flowers
French yellow mini euphorbia – like a Copton Ash – cypress spurge
Petty spurge
Marjoram
Pink cistus
Erigeron profusion
Musk Mallow
Mallow
Mace/Bullrush
Water Spearmint
Duckweed
Mares tail Hippuris vulgaris Oxygenator plant
Pond weed
Water iris
White flower water loving plant
Water Hawthorn - Another white flowered pond plant
M<arsh Marigold
Peony
Holm Oak
Hazel
Dwarf Willow
Juniper (2)
3 meadow grasses
1 spiky shade grass
lawn grass
bugle
primrose
snowdrop
pyramid orchid
tall spreading plant with big leaves small yellowish flowers
cow parsley
Alexanders
Horseradish
Dock like weed
Whiteflow from windy ridge
Tall single stalk purple flower
Echium
Teasle
Pink marguerite
White marguerite
Geranium red
Wisteria
Fig
Small Periwinkle
Large Periwinkle
Wall weed – tiny leaved
Blue/purple  sprawling  flowers
Wild strawberry
Alpine strawberry
Hosta
Rosebay Willow Herb
Artichoke
Hydrangea (3 varieties)
Purple Toad Flax
Broadbean
Potato
Dandelion
Anemone hybrida 'Profusion' (autumn flowering)
Box
Lesser Celandine Yellow early woodland flower – waxy leaves
Dianthus
Yew
Heather
Sycamore
Onion (3 varieties)
Shallots
Acanthus
Oxalis – Pink sorrel
Foxglove
Ivy leaved sowbread
Bronze Fennel
Nasturtium
Monbretia - Crocosmia
Harts Tongue Fern
Aquilegia
Osteospermum
Stinking Iris
Bindweed
Lavender
Bramble
Lemon Balm
Mint
Garlic Mustard
Yellow Dead Nettle
Daffodil
Cotoneaster
Ivy
Honeysuckle
Cleavers/Goose Grass/Sticky Willow
Bittercress
Smooth sow thistle
Perennial sow thistle
Arum maculatum
Common Fumitory
Honesty
Raspberry
Salad Burnet
Herb Bennet
Lady’s Mantle
Rue
Great Masterwort – Astrantia Major?
Smooth Honeywort? Creeping Jenny
Field Madder
Ground Ivy
Black nightshade
Groundsel
Water Plantain
Grape Hyacinth
Crocus