Since September 2003 the author has been studying a square metre of rough grassland and the immediate surrounding area in his garden in the East Sussex Weald at Sedlescombe near Hastings, UK. By May 2006 over 700 species of plants and animals had been identified and there are many more as yet unidentified and, of course, undiscovered.
In my post of 11th June below I pointed out that in order to confirm the identity of what I thought was trailing tormentil (Potentilla anglica) I needed to see ripe seeds. I have now managed to do this: