Category Archives: Plants in Bexley

Getting to grips with plant characteristics at Crossness

Posted on 21/05/2015 by Chris Rose

Yesterday (May 20th) , Tony Wileman, from the London Wildlife Trust, came to Crossness Nature Reserve to educate us on the wonderful world of wildflower identification. Twelve people braved the dark skies and unexpected showers and learned tonnes by doing … Continue reading →

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Welling botany meeting adds probable new species to Bexley list

Posted on 26/04/2015 by Chris Rose

Rodney Burton writes: One London Natural History Society member was the only other person who turned up to this April 25th meeting! We recorded about 100 species in each of two monads. The only item of special interest was a good … Continue reading →

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Lesnes Abbey Woods bird walk report, April 25th 2015

Posted on 26/04/2015 by Chris Rose

RSPB  Bexley Group – walk Lesnes Abbey Woods Saturday 25th April 2015 – 0900-1200 After a week of seemingly unbroken sunshine it was a little disappointing to assemble under grey skies and a passing shower – undeterred, 12 members joined … Continue reading →

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Colt’s-foot flowers 13 days later than a century ago despite warming climate

Posted on 24/04/2015 by Chris Rose

According to a paper in the latest edition of ‘British Wildlife’ Colt’s-foot (Tussilago farfara) is flowering much later than it did 100 years ago.  It is not yet understood why. The trend with other species is usually in the opposite direction. … Continue reading →

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Conserving some of Bexley’s rare plants

Posted on 06/04/2015 by Chris Rose

The latest e-mail from the Kent Botanical Recording Group, which is producing a comprehensive register of rare plants in the county (which in this case includes that part of west Kent that is now in Greater London) called for information … Continue reading →

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Shuttle corridor is Mistletoe magnet and Small Tortoiseshell sanctuary

Posted on 13/03/2015 by Chris Rose

On my way to the Bexley Park Woods event meeting point yesterday (March 12th) there was a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on the Shuttle riverbank just to the west of the tree line. Afterwards another was seen by the river at … Continue reading →

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Ragged Robins, Red Admiral and Wigeon at Danson

Posted on 06/10/2014 by Chris Rose

I came across two flowering Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) by the rock garden pond at Danson Park today, which according  to GiGL’s database is only the second site for it in the Borough, the other having been Foots Cray Meadows … Continue reading →

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Corky-fruited Water-dropwort: a new record for this very scarce London species in Bexley

Posted on 04/10/2014 by Chris Rose

On 23rd July 2014 a number of plants of Corky-fruited Water-dropwort (Oenanthe pimpinelloides), a member of the carrot family, and a species of conservation concern for Greater London due to its rarity in the capital, were found in an uncultivated … Continue reading →

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Galling afternoon adds new species to Cray and TRW lists

Posted on 10/09/2014 by Chris Rose

The Alder Tongue Gall, which I found on the cones of an Alder along By-way 105 on the lower Cray yesterday (September 9th) may be a new Bexley record. The fact that ‘Britain’s Plant Galls, a photographic guide’ by Michael … Continue reading →

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Ancient woodland rarity Hypericum pulchrum procreates at Martens Grove

Posted on 06/06/2014 by Chris Rose

The ancient woodland indicator Slender St. John’s-wort (Hypericum pulchrum), rare in Bexley, has vanished from a number of local woods in living memory – such as Bexley Park and Bursted Woods – probably due to lack of coppicing, though various … Continue reading →

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