Holborough and Strood areas Kent - 13/05/18
This is a continuation of my last blog, having left Ranscombe Farm to replace my camera battery. I visited a chalk bank by the tidal River Medway at Strood (from McDonald's to Diggerland) . It was only constructed within the last 10 years and contains a host of wildflowers and a few aliens naturalised from nearby flower beds. There is some salt marsh as well. There was a single very large Broom bush in full flower, oddly it was growing just above the high tide line. I;m sure a winter storm surge would kill it off! Cytisus scoparius The chalk bank was dotted with Kidney Vetch. Anthyllis vulneraria Under my feet in the salt marsh were several stands of English Scurvygrass. The flowers aren't very big, but still much bigger than the roadside Danish Scurvygrass. Cochlearia anglica Seed pod. Viper's Bugloss with its attractive blue and purple flowers on the chalk bank.