Flora

The ditches are flanked by arboreal-bush type vegetation, for the most part consisting of: Black Poplar (Populus nigra), several species of Willow: White (Salix alba), Purple (Salix purpurea) and Salix cinerea (Salix cinerea), English Oak (Quercus robur), Smoothleaf Elm (Ulmus minor), Hedge Maple (Acer campestre), European Alder (Alnus glutinosa) and Cornel (Cornus sanguinea).

The margins of the lakes and canals run almost uninterruptedly with well developed typical marshland plants.

The most typical species are the Marsh Reeds (Phragmites australis), False Bulrush - or Great Reedmace - (Typha latifolia), Yellow Flag (Iris pseudacorus), Branched Bur-Reed (Sparganium erectum), Common Water-Plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica) and sedges (Carex spp.)  and sedges (Juncus spp.) and other riparian species such as Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and Marsh Spurge (Euphorbia palustris).

Various hydrophytes populate the waters: Milfoils (Myriophyllum), Pondweeds (Potamogeton), Water crowfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis), Amphibious Bistort (Polygonum amphibium) and Common Duckweed  (Lemna minor).

Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus) dominates the fields, but Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi), Wild Oat (Avena fatua), Purple Moor-Grass (Molinia coerulea) and various species of clover (Trifolium sp.) are all plentiful.