Summer flowers on the North Kent Coast Reculver is a grassy clifftop on the North Kent Coast just a few miles East of Herne Bay. I went for a lovely walk there in July with my big camera amongst swathes of rippling wild carrot and swooping sand martins. New to me – Tansy flowers and…
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Wildflowers in my garden in June
Flowering in my Sussex garden this summer Following on from my similar May blog post about garden wildflowers, here is what was in flower a month later. White herb robert – Geranium robertianium This continues my theme of what is a weed and what is a wildflower? My friend Mercy sent me this plant, which…
Seaford Head in June
Wildflowers on the Local Nature Reserve in June In May when I visited Seaford Head, a Sussex Wildlife Trust ranger advised that I come back in a few weeks to see the difference, so I took her at her word. You could probably tell from my May post that there is a range of different…
Seaford Last Meadow in May
Wildflower spotting with Plantlife On my regular health walks around Seaford I often take the Alfriston Rd heading out of town and pass a dog-walking field. It turns out this is called the Last Meadow and is a well known haven for orchids and other wildflowers. When I saw Plantlife had a Great British Wildflower Hunt I…
South Downs Way at Alfriston Sussex
Short hike up a hill with flowers and views After lock-down was relaxed a little we took the kids for a short hike up the chalky Downs behind Alfriston in Sussex. In case you wonder how we managed to persuade a twenty year old and an eighteen year old to get exercise – we lured…
Walking Whitstable to Canterbury
Wildflowers on the Crab and Winkle Way After wildflower spotting along the north Kent coast, I headed west again to Whitstable then south, inland towards Canterbury. Wildflowers of Long Rock SSSI Swalecliffe Many flowers spotted in this Site of Special Scientific Interest were ones listed in my previous post. Crab and Winkle Way over…
April Nature in the New Forest near Brockenhurst
Birdwatching from a shepherds hut Mike and I were lucky enough to have two nights in a shepherds hut in the New Forest in early April. Set in farmland, the front door was only about four metres away from Roydon Woods Nature Reserve Although there was no direct access to the Wildlife Trust site, it…
Spotting wildflowers out walking in Seaford
Wildflowers and health walks I try and walk for my health every day. I only do about half an hour but it seems to be enough. Sometimes I do a bit of mindfulness at the same time. Most times I follow the same route past the cemetery heading out of Seaford, through a lime walk…
Photographing August wildflowers in Spain
Here are some wildflowers spotted in and around Gaucin in Southern Spain 2017. All these photos were taken on the same day along the same lane in late August. Here is a related post about dried flowers I spotted on the same walk.
Tide Mills – a lovely spot for photographing wildflowers
Spotting wildflowers on a local walk Tide Mills is the site of a ruined village in a historic coastal area between Seaford and Newhaven, which is popular with walkers. There were plenty of wildflowers to be seen when I visited in August. After parking off the A259, the path skirts a couple of fields as…