Tag: TQ60
Eastbourne cherry
I have driven for years past this old mixed hedge on Willingdon Drove that contains mature trees of oak and ash without realising that it contains Prunus cerasus (Dwarf Cherry). […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pevensey Levels
Meeting date: 8 July 2017 (Leader: Jane Birch) A fine warm day with some sunshine saw a good turn-out of fourteen people to White Dyke Farm on the Pevensey Levels […]
The Crumbles
Meeting date: 14 June 2017 (Leader: Matthew Berry) There was a time when the leader wondered whether he would be guiding a botanical field meeting or something altogether more nostalgic, […]
Pevensey Levels
Meeting date: 16 July 2016 (Leader: Jane Birch) The purpose of the meeting was to revisit ditches which had been surveyed in 2000 for the Environment Agency and to compare […]
This is not a field meeting report
Yesterday there was a field meeting on the Pevensey Levels. However, Viola and I got to the meeting point just a little late and everyone had already set off. The […]
Pevensey Levels
Meeting date: 26 August 2015 (Leader: Jane Birch) The forecast of heavy rain threatened to cancel the meeting. However, gentle persuasion and members’ faith in the convenor’s plan led to […]
Hooe area
Meeting date: 25 May 2008 (Leader: Roy Wells) The weather report was awful, and the ten people who set out from Hooe Church for tetrad recording might have expected a […]
Pevensey Levels
Meeting date: 13 August 2005 (Leader: Alan Knapp) Eighteen members gathered at the Sussex Wildlife Trust Reserve to be met by the Warden, Alice Parfitt, who had generously given up […]