I'm sure this plant was much less abundant five years ago. Now I'm seeing it everywhere. If we're not vigilant the biodiversity police will be out to control it as bringing on unfavourable condition status (having first lobbied Defra to provide generous grants for herbicides and associated management rehabilitation programmes).
This must be good news, further proof that bracken does not blight the ground so much that other things cannot adapt to it. Walking around the areas of greatest bracken dominance from mid May to mid June gives a more realistic picture than some of the hysteria often to be heard. Birch and Rowan keep a check on bracken and the practice of cutting trees where it is present is misguided and frankly ridiculous. I know numerous places where young growing Birch and Rowan take the vigour out of bracken and when deer tracks surround the trees the effect is greater.
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