Another bright day with some cloud, but a chilly and strong wind.
We started by looking at an old map of the area from 1930 which showed where we were standing to be a putting course – amazing – and then
Even though I arrived a little bit late (car trouble – soz everyone) 26 people were all waiting patiently and enjoying the hot Saturday afternoon sun on Marine Parade.
Descending the concrete steps to the beach we stopped halfway down to
We started by looking at how plants can grow as really small versions of themselves if they are amongst grass which is mown regularly. Lady’s Bedstraw, Common Restharrow, Common Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Ribwort Plantain, Bulbous buttercup and Salad Burnet were all noted
An absolutely sparkling, sunny, summer morning…but windy.
We started by the roadside admiring Bloody Crane’s-bill, as you do, which was in full magenta flower and adjacent to blue-flowered Geranium x magnificum a sterile garden crane’s-bill so certainly the result of someone
Rather windy and chilly for mid-summers day but fortunately the occasional black cloud scurrying across the sky did not rain on us.
We started by looking at some yellow-flowered plants in the Brassica family growing on the waste areas at the
Even though it was chilly, a bit windy, and threatened to rain, the wildflowers shone through on our circular walk from St. Germain’s Church over to ‘Blue Mountain’ then across the sea front north to the Slipway returning over the
Martin Allen will be talking about the Cleveland Coast Wildflowers project on Sunday 10th May with Brigid Press on BBC Tees Brigid and Dave show.
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