Category Wild Pavements – urban nature adventures
Guest blog for London Wildlife Trust – 30 days wild part 2
And an account of another wonderful visit here
30 days wild – 30th and final site. Chapel Bank, Croydon
I’ve been incredibly lucky with the weather for my 29 visits so far. So it’s ironic that for today, the 30th one, it’s drizzling. That suits me fine for what I’m hoping to see today at this site which is a combination of chalk grassland and woodland. As I pick my way through the wet […]
30 days wild – 29. Three Corner Wood, Croydon
At the far end of Hutchinson’s Bank is a triangular chalky woodland. I walk over moss and into a clearing where White Bryony and Wild Strawberry scramble through the Dog’s Mercury across the mossy floor.
30 days wild – 28. Farm Bog, Merton
So a small number of the green spaces I’ve visited have been closed. There’s a different challenge with Farm Bog on Wimbledon Common – it’s very difficult to find. I resort to trying out a number of small paths which go south from Robin Hood ride and seem to be going in the direction of […]
30 days wild – 27. Hillcrest Wood, Lewisham
Hillcrest Wood is on the other side of Sydenham Hill ridge from Sydenham Hill Wood and is where the the old rail line to the Crystal Palace emerges from the tunnel. This small but precious green space narrowly escaped development in 2018 when Lewisham Council in the from of Lewisham Homes withdrew a planning application […]
Guest blog for London Wildlife Trust – 30 days wild part 1
Delighted that LWT have accepted my guest blog and, even better, have turned me into an Ox-eye daisy. https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/blog/amanda-tuke/30-green-places-30-days-wild
30 days wild – 26. Sydenham Hill Wood, Southwark
I’m back to my local patch for number 26 and it’s the perfect time to enjoy the deep pink spikes of Rosebay Willowherb flowering alongside the old railway bed. This feels appropriate as I see it so often growing along rail tracks in this part of London. A nickname for this flower is Bombweed as […]
28th June 2020 – oh, the places you’ll go!
I’ve been down to the church tower a few times over the last week, but didn’t get a glimpse of the kestrels nesting there until Friday when I was without binoculars and camera. I thought I could just make out an adult and two young ones. This morning I set off down Cox’s Walk to […]
30 day challenge – 25. West Kent Golf Course, Bromley
This is the last site on my tour east across the North Downs. The golf course spreads along a narrow chalky valley and above the greens, the rough really is rough. We work our way through the woods on the ridge until I find a narrow path through the hedge down onto the rough grass. […]
30 day challenge – 24. Saltbox Hill, Bromley
We visit more chalk grasslands today further east along the North Downs. Riddlesdown was the most westerly on my list of sites to visit this month, then Hutchinson’s Bank and now Saltbox Hill. After parking in a strangely quiet housing estate, we follow a footpath between houses and into a small woodland. Despite the heat […]
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