Lady Hay Wood has an area of roughly 8 hectares and  lies close to the western edge of Groby Pool SSSI. It is well known locally for its show of Bluebells in the spring.

Edith Hesselgreaves in her 1973 paper 'A Flora of Groby Parish' recorded the following species ;-

'There are exposures of diorite along the northern and southern borders, with a small stream valley running across the middle, from west to east. The vegetation on the higher ground is acid - with oak, rowan and silver birch as the dominant trees, and much bramble and bracken. Rosebay willow-herb, wood sage and bent grasses also occur.

In the damper parts of the wood the following shrubs occur - hazel, sallow and goat willow, blackthorn, elder, holly - with some planted box and yew in the north western corner.

The stream valley is bordered with abundant meadow-sweet, angelica, guelder rose and occasional plants of soft-rush and remote sedge.

Along the eastern edge of the wood is a strip of richer vegetation; of yellow deadnettle, wood dog violet, primrose, bugle, dog's mercury, red campion, greater stitchwort, ground ivy, broad buckler and male ferns.

Bluebells, wood sorrel, wood anemones can be found in many parts of the wood in spring, the anemones being of a lovely purplish pink.

The following grasses are common in Lady Hay - wood millet, giant fescue, tufted hairgrass and wood brome.

The footpath that runs along the western side of the wood forms part of the National Forest Way and links Martinshaw Wood in Ratby to Newtown Linford and Bradgate Park. This path is also known to the locals as the Donkey Drive. This is because it was the route that Groby Quarry donkeys took from Groby to the quarries just to the north of Groby Pool.'