Coastal flowers in Kent
At the end of June 2019 I went for a walking holiday and spent a few days wandering from plant to plant along the north Kent coast between Swalecliffe and Faversham.
Swalecliffe is on the coast a little to the west of Herne Bay. I walked west past Tankerton, Whitstable, Seasalter and South Swale nature reserve along the coast, then turned inland towards Graveney and Faversham.
Seaside flowers near Whitstable
As I walked past Tankerton and Whitstable, there were a lot of wildflowers on the beach itself.
![Sea holly Erygium maritimum](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Erygium-sea-holly-Tankerton-beach-Jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Salsify Tragopogon porrifolius](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/salsify-flower-tankerton-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Beach rose - Rosa rugosa](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sea-rose-whitstable-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Spiny restharrow Ononis spinosa](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sea-pea-whitstable-beach-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Lucerne Medicago sativa](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lucerne-Whitstable-beach-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
Wildflowers West of Whitstable
![Cinquefoil Potentilla wildflower](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/potentilla-west-beach-whitstable-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Sea campion horned poppy](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/white-_-horned-poppy-beach-west-beach-whitstable-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Horned poppy vipers bugloss](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/horned-poppy-vipers-bugloss-west-beach-whitstable-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
Seaside flowers Seasalter
![White stonecrop Sedum album](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sedum-beach-seasalter-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![sea beet sea kale](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sea-kale-sea-beet-seasalter-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Red valerian Centranthus ruber](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/red-valerian-centranthus-ruber-seasalter-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![wild Bunny tails Lagurus ovatus](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lagurus-seasalter-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Biting stonecrop Sedum acre](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/yellow-sedum-seasalter-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Crow garlic Allium vineale](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/alliums-seasalter-1024x768.jpg)
![Trefoil Trifolium](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hop-trefoil-seasalter-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
Wilder South Swale nature reserve
![Wild carrot Daucus carota](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wild-carrot-parsnip-south-swale-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![agrimony Agrimonia eupatoria](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/yellow-spike-south-swale-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
Inland to Faversham via Graveney
![Teasel Dipsacus fullonum](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/teasel-head-graveney-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Hogs fennel Peucedanum officinale](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/mercys-big-plant-graveney-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
![Wild rose rosa](http://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wild-rose-faversham-jun-2019-1024x768.jpg)
I went back to Faversham in my campervan in spring 2023 for the cherry blossom.
Notes from the walk
Tankerton slopes – long grass containing sea pea, yellow pea, hogs fennel, salsify, vetches, mallow, barley, plantain
South Swale nature reserve – skylarks, many bumblebees, egret, shelduck, oystercatcher
Sea veg – sea kale, sea beet, wild carrot, atriplex
More on Agrimony
If you would like to know how I identified the spiny restharrow, see my page on Ononis
On the same trip, I also walked inland from Whitstable to Canterbury, which is in a separate blog post.
On a previous trip, I followed the Great Stour Way out of Canterbury