Author: Helen Proctor
Well Bottom
Meeting date: 2 July 2023 (Leader: Helen Proctor) From Firle Beacon car park, six members battled against the strong cool wind on the South Downs Way to reach the top […]
Sandhurst Cross
Meeting date: 28 July 2022 (Leaders: Geoffrey Kitchener & Helen Proctor) After a gap of three years, we renewed our acquaintance with the botanists of the Kent Botanical Recording Group […]
Rye Harbour
Meeting date: 16 July 2022 (Leaders: Helen Proctor & Barry Yates) A select group of four, including a new member and our president, gathered in the car park. A strong […]
Banks Farm, Mountfield
Meeting date: 11 June 2022 (Leader: Helen Proctor) A select group of six met on a wonderfully sunny day to explore Banks Farm. This small farm comprises sheep pastures, restored […]
Park Corner Heath
Meeting date: 21 May 2022 (Leaders: Bob Foreman & Helen Proctor) Six of us met on a dry, sunny and breezy morning that became warmer in the afternoon. Bob Foreman […]
St Helen’s Wood, Hastings
Meeting date: 13 November 2021 (Leader: Owen Johnson) Owen Johnson introduced the group to the history of this 104 acre estate. The woodland and meadows were saved from development in […]
Pevensey Levels
Meeting date: 10 July 2021 (Leader: Jane Birch) The weather forecast accurately predicted a 97% chance of precipitation. Eight members assembled in Westham Village Hall car park. The promise of […]
Cradle Hill
Meeting date: 19 June 2021 (Leader: Peter Smith) Ten members visited the downland hillside site of Cradle Hill on a fine day. It has a rich downland flora, and there […]
Bates Green Farm
Meeting date: 16 June 2021 (Leader: Helen Proctor) Farmer John McCutchan asked us to survey Lower Tyehill Field, which is being managed as a hay meadow. Last summer he had […]
Abbots Wood
Meeting date: 4 June 2021 (Leader: Helen Proctor) Four of us, clad from head to toe in waterproofs, set off in torrential rain. There was no breeze so the vertical […]