We have recently taken responsibility for a small piece of woodland in Kent. One of its features is its many flowers
Wood anemones known in Kent as Milkmaids (March)
Primroses
Early purple orchids
Common orchid
Twayblade orchid flowers
Foxglove
Honeysuckle
Spindle tree fruit in November
Clitocybe infundibuliformis; The last part just means funnel shaped
One of the most interesting aspects of the fungi is the way many of them seem to have adapted to match the colouration of the dead leaves in the part of the wood where they happen to be
One of the less welcome sights we found when we first took over
the wood
The washing machines, the old cars, the refigerators and the
building refuse have now all gone. We would like to acknowledge
all the help and physical assistance we have had from teenage
volunteers working as part of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award
scheme www.theaward.org/ ,
the local office of English Nature, volunteers working for the
Kentish Stour Countryside Project www.kentishstour.org.uk
and local horse riders participating in the TROT (Toll Rides Off
road Trust) scheme. We still have a problem with the leaking
drums in the background which are filled with an unidentified
black liquid: some kind of toxic waste perhaps?, all dumped
anonymously of course