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The other day I was having a discussion with Morgan (who is 5) about the number of species of plants and animals that live in our garden. Ever since he has been going on to me to write a list of every plant and animal that I can think of that we’ve seen in the garden. It is going to be quite an undertaking and I shall have to research some of the species of plant that we have. The vertebrates should be relatively easy, but when it comes to the invertebrates that may take a little more effort.<\/p>\n

It should be fun devising such a list though so we will be starting it soon. Don’t worry, I’ll be limiting it to those that we can see with the naked eye, I’m not going to start delving into the microscopic just yet! Even so, I think we’ll easily get to several hundred with just the ones I already know, once I start researching the ones I don’t know the list will go on and on even in our little patch of the world.<\/p>\n

It should be an interesting exercise if nothing else.

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