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Photo of Sovereign Harbour Eastbourne

Making Itself at Home?

On a visit to Eastbourne’s Sovereign Harbour just after Christmas I noticed plants of Polycarpon tetraphylla (Four-leaved Allseed), vibrantly green and in full growth in areas away from where it […]

30 January 201930 January 2019 Roy Wells Latest sightings
Picture of Aubrieta deltoidea

The New Year Plant Hunt in Sussex

As 2018 inexorably turned into 2019 botanists from all over the country were out in force. It was the eighth BSBI New Year Plant Hunt and members of the society […]

27 January 201927 January 2019 Brad Scott Latest sightings
Picture of Scleranthus annuus (Annual Knawel)

Unexpected find of a rare, declining species

We (Judy Clark, Ellen Campbell and Jacqueline Rose) have spent literally hours hunting for and failing to find Scleranthus annuus (Annual Knawel) around Camber Castle at Rye Harbour. Helen Proctor […]

4 August 20184 August 2018 Jacqueline Rose Latest sightings
Picture of Uckfield Rugby Club

Edge of the rugby field

During the 2018 AGM, it was suggested that we should survey neighbourhood greens and pitches. I am doing some of my local green areas including Uckfield Rugby Club. This is […]

12 July 201812 July 2018 Wendy Tagg Latest sightings
Picture of countryside near Wannock

No major refind in a “missing” part of Wannock

It is not often, when you have lived in an area for as long as I have, that you discover sizeable parts of it which are not only untrodden by […]

9 July 20189 July 2018 Matthew Berry Latest sightings
Picture of Gymnadenia densiflora (Marsh Fragrant-orchid)

A density of orchids

Wow! What can I say? I’ve long wanted to get to grips with the balance between the commoner Chalk Fragrant-orchid and the scarcer Marsh or Dense-flowered Fragrant-orchid (above) at Ditchling Beacon. […]

6 July 201812 July 2018 Graeme Lyons Latest sightings
Cover of the book The Greenwood Trees

Treesome: Exhibition at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

Christina Hart-Davies is well known to members of the SBRS; not only did she paint the majority of the illustrations in David Streeter’s Wild Flower Guide, but she came to […]

2 July 2018 Brad Scott News
Picture of Orobanche minor var. flava

Orobanche minor var. flava

This morning, as most mornings, I walked Barney around the clover fields at Goodwood. As it was quite hot at 6am Barney took a short cut over rather than around […]

19 June 201819 June 2018 Howard Matcham Latest sightings
Picture of Dactylorhiza fuchsii (Common Spotted-orchid)

Better than the Levels you know?

Most of you will know Evan Jones for the magnificent image which adorns the front cover of The Flora of Sussex (2018). However, he is not only a gifted photographer […]

18 June 201819 June 2018 Matthew Berry Latest sightings
Picture of Len culinaris (Lentil)

A lentil on parade in Eastbourne

On Wednesday 23 May 2018, while on my way home, I decided to take a detour past the Framfield Way shopping parade in the Rodmill district of Eastbourne. This is […]

3 June 20183 June 2018 Matthew Berry Latest sightings

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  • Treesome: Exhibition at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

    2 July 2018
  • The Flora of Sussex will be published February 2018

    23 September 2017
  • All taxa list and BSBI recorders

    11 May 2017
  • Joseph Hooker at Kew

    5 April 2017
  • Instructions for recording churchyards and cemeteries in 2017

    20 March 2017
Latest Sightings
  • The New Year Plant Hunt in Sussex

    The New Year Plant Hunt in Sussex

    27 January 2019
  • Unexpected find of a rare, declining species

    Unexpected find of a rare, declining species

    4 August 2018
  • Edge of the rugby field

    Edge of the rugby field

    12 July 2018
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Past Field Meetings
  • Chailey Commons

    Chailey Commons

    6 January 2018
  • Graffham Common

    Graffham Common

    6 January 2018
  • Firehills, Hastings

    Firehills, Hastings

    6 January 2018
  • Amberley Wild Brooks

    Amberley Wild Brooks

    6 January 2018
  • Michelham Priory

    Michelham Priory

    6 January 2018
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