Tag: TQ60
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 […]
Normans Bay
Meeting date: 8 June 2019 (Leaders: Jacqueline Rose/Judy Clark/Ellen Campbell) The sun shone so it was never really cold despite the increasing wind. Eight members came despite the weather warning […]
Montague Farm, Pevensey Levels
Meeting date: 11 May 2019 (Leaders: Jacqueline Rose/Judy Clark/Ellen Campbell) We had a wonderful day at Montague Farm. Despite a rather dodgy forecast, about fifteen members came. Montague is an […]
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 […]
Court Lodge Farm, Wartling
Meeting date: 14 July 2018 (Leaders: Jane Birch and Helen Proctor) Eight members were greeted by Marian and David Harding on their organic farm. They joined us for part of […]
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 […]