Wild plants found @TheGroveDIY skatepark & garden, SE22 8LF, and a cool urban bird.

I popped down to the skatepark for a recce before the Wild Pavements – Urban Nature workshop I’m leading there on Thursday 7 Aug at 6pm, and found a good selection of common urban wild plants to point out to the group. & for the icing on the urban nature cake, I heard a Hobby calling as I was photographing the plants. That’s not as surprising for this site in Inner London as it sounds, given I’ve seen an adult and fledgling in nearby Dulwich Wood.

Butterfly-bush, introduced from China.
Oxford Ragwort, introduced from Italy
Bittersweet
Round-leaved Crane’s-bill
Grey Sedge
Knot-grass
Greater Plantain
Black Medick
Garlic Mustard
Green Alkanet, introduced from SW Europe
Autumn Hawkbit (not yet in flower)
Redshank
Wood Avens (in fruit)
Common Mallow (not in flower)
Pendulous Sedge

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