Sheldwich, south of Faversham, Kent - 21/10/18
This trip came about purely by chance. The week before I was out with the family and stopped at Sheldwich church to make a cup of tea from the flask. On driving away I saw what looked like Viper's Bugloss along a road verge, but the flowers were a lot bigger. So I researched this area and found that Purple Bugloss had previously been recorded here but little else had. Thus a recording trip plan was born! My planned route took me through 4 under recorded monads. Here are the highlights from that trip. Borage was commomplace in patches for about 500m along a rural road verge. The usual blue flowers were dominant, but a few white form variants were also present. Borage Borago officinalis Common Centaury Centaurium erythraea Crreping Thistle Cirsium arvense Two of the three usual thistles were present. I'm sure if I had looked harder, I would have found rosettes of the third one, Marsh Thistle.