Addenda 2018
Known as Adur Recreation Ground (colloquial)
Reclaimed intertidal Scurvy Bank (deposited soil on geological maps)
28 June 2018
Seeded
Wild Patch
Adur
Recreation Ground
What a difference a few days make: on the small seeded patch the orange poppies were now accompanied by frequent blue and purple flowers. Identifiable blooms recorded on this parched patch on Adur Recreation Ground in order of prominence were California Poppy Eschscholzia californica, Mugwort, Purple Bugloss Echium plantagineum, Borage, Oriental Poppies Papaver pseudoorientale, and fancy-coloured Cornflowers, at least one Purple Tansy Phacelia tanacetifolia, with scattered plants of unknown identity with one scarlet Zinnia flower.
Purple Bugloss, Echium plantagineum
Oriental
Poppies, Marsh Woundwort,
Purple
Tansy
Corn
Cockle
Grasses dominated the wilder more back to nature areas where noted blooms in prominence in order of prevalence were Common Mallow, Field Bindweed, Marsh Woundwort, Burdock, Spear Thistles, Bristly Ox-tongue and no more than occasional occurrences of Viper's Bugloss, Corn Cockle, Corn Marigold, Scented Mayweed, Greater Willowherb, more Oriental Poppies and Sow Thistles. The visit was cursory in the warm sunshine and I did not take notes.
23 June 2018
Seeded
Wild Patch
Adur
Recreation Ground
California Poppy
On the southern edge of a parched Adur Recreation Ground there was a confirmed Welted Thistle near Little Norfolk Bridge taking the road over the Flood Arches. It looks like the long grass meadows have been seeded with semi-natural plants especially the California Poppy, Eschscholzia californica, and an unidentified blue flower.
Purple Bugloss, Echium plantagineum.
Black
Medick,
Common Mallow, Oriental
Poppy (Papaver
pseudoorientale)
White
Clover and
Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis
capillaris, Fumitory
Adur
Recreation Ground
Blustered about terribly in the breeze (Force 5) it proved too tricky to capture a publishable photograph of my first Large Skipper of the year visiting White Clover amongst the long grasses at the Flood Arches end of Adur Recreation Ground. The grasses were blowing about much too much and I could not get a clear shot. Fumitory was then spotted hidden amongst the long grasses. Swaying in the wind the crimson of the Oriental Poppies, Papaver pseudoorientale, and a large spike of Viper's Bugloss, a single confirmed Slender Thistle, the purple Common Mallow, and the yellow of Bristly Ox-tongue were larger and more noticeable.
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Pre-Solstice Wild Flower Reports 2018
Wild Flower Reports 2017
