At the end of July Mike and I took Ethel the camper van to the other side of Sussex to visit friends.
It was very wet underfoot but we managed not to get rained on!
I have never seen this Pratia before and had to do an image search to find it but I’m confident in the ID
The large hogweed plants were growing on the edge of the woods and were really pretty.
Another one new to me. Apparently it is common.
This is not Perforate St Johns Wort, but I don’t know what it is as there are so many to choose from. It was inside the woods rather than on the edge, and the long slender stems seemed to trail. *2022 update at bottom of page!
I’m not entirely sure what type of Campion these seed heads belong to but they’re very decorative.
There are a lot of trees in this part of East Sussex! This Helleborine was growing right next to the footpath.
This Skullcap was growing out from the cover of the trees and onto our campervan pitch.
I don’t usually try to ID grasses but this one jumped out at me. We were walking through a hay field when we saw this Timothy, and I recognised the grass from our dried flowers shop daisyshop.co.uk. It is grown as a feed but is also popular dyed in bright colours for floristry.
While Mike and I sat in some shorter grass to eat our lunch, it dawned on me that I hadn’t any decent pics of White Clover. Conveniently I didn’t even have to stand up to take this!
2021 was a good year for orchidsAMP | Read more about orchids
Other campervan trips this year include touring Derbyshire and YorkishireAMP and visiting BrockenhurstAMP.
*2022 Update about Hypericums – I have just received my Wild Flower Society Magazine for Autumn 2022 and it contains a handy pull-out ID sheet for UK St John’s-worts by Peter G. Leonard. It mentions Hypericum humifusum which seems a likely candidate. Read more on my St John’s-wort page.