Author: Peter Smith
Cuckmere Haven
Meeting date: 3 June 2023 (Leader: Peter Smith) Preliminary research for our planned field meeting at Chyngton Brooks showed the Brooks to be under occupation by a large family herd […]
Beddingham Hill
Meeting date: 16 April 2022 (Leader: Peter Smith) For the first East Sussex field meeting of the year, a group of ten members, soon to be known as the Anthill […]
My home tetrad
Source: Smith, Peter B. “My home tetrad.” Sussex Botanical Recording Society Newsletter, no. 91 (November 2020). https://www.sussexflora.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Newsletter_nov_20.pdf. Faced with Lockdown, I realised that it created an opportunity to look more […]
West Firle Beacon
Meeting date: 29 June 2019 (Leader: Peter Smith) Every year that I agree to lead a field meeting it turns out to be the hottest day of the year, and […]
Photographic Competition 2019
Starry Clover, Helen Dignum Sea Milkwort, Jacqueline Rose Following the success of the 2018 Photographic Competition, we are holding a further competition this year. The rules of the competition are […]
Woodvale Cemetery, Brighton
Meeting date: 6 June 2018 (Leader: Peter Smith) Eight members explored the adjacent Woodvale and Extra-Mural Cemeteries as a needed contribution to the Churchyard Project. We applauded the policy of […]
Beddingham landfill
Along with Helen Proctor I have found a new population of Parentucellia viscosa (Yellow Bartsia), located on a reclaimed part of the former Beddingham landfill site. More than 50 flowering […]
Spring greens
Cochlearica danica (Danish Scurvygrass) is a halophyte that has spread rapidly along the salted verges of major roads in this country in recent years. Here it is greeting the spring […]
Rathfinney’s Farm, Alfriston
Meeting date: 2 July 2016 (Leader: Peter Smith) July 2nd proved to be a very windy day and eight hardy souls repaired to the Rathfinney winery. However, not a drop […]
Wivelsfield
Meeting date: 14 June 2014 (Leader: Peter Smith) Ten members gathered near Wivelsfield, with the intention of enhancing records for TQ31P. Close as we were to the frontier between East […]