Two weeks ago there was a meeting of the Sussex Botanical Recording Society which visited three churchyards in vice-county 14 as part of its ongoing churchyard survey. Since I was there it was a good opportunity to do some bryophyte recording, especially since one of the tetrads had no records at all. That was TQ33N, […]
Hammerwood church is little visited these days and sits on the A264 at the northernmost outpost of the civil parish of Forest Row. A few hundred yards to the north is the border with Kent and Surrey. After my initial bryological visit to the area on 30 March, a few days ago I made my […]
Now on a mission to get my home hectad green, there are still a few squares with barely any records. Until a few days ago the tetrad TQ43J was one of them, with just a couple of records from Francis Rose in 1966. It is a productive-looking area at the northern end of Forest Row […]
Encouraged by Brad’s interesting finds in a part of TQ31I that I had not visited, I decided to try to add a few more species to this tetrad, which had only 53 recorded taxa. Crossing the southern part of Ditchling Common, under the skylarks and through sheets of wood anemones, I crossed the B2112 and […]
Sussex Bryophytes 