My walk through Bateman's, Brightling and Dallington Forest started at Burwash. I reached Burwash by getting the 29A bus from Brighton to...

Selwyns Wood is a small nature reserve south of Cross-in-Hand, near Heathfield, East Sussex. It can be reached by the 29A Brighton & Hove...

This post focusses on the bryophytes of a ghyll wood in the High Weald National Landscape. Common Tamarisk-Moss; Endive Pellia and...

I am not going to reveal where we found these species as the lichen Tree Lungwort, Lobaria pulmonaria, and Tunbridge Filmy-fern,...

St. Leonard’s Forest SSSI (84.5 ha) supports remnants of a formerly more extensive deciduous forest on the Tunbridge Wells Sands...

I visited Fairlight Glen on 14.10.23 to enjoy its amazing bryophytes and ferns; I was hoping to find Dumortier's Liverwort Dumortiera...

Rock Wood is an SSSI noted for its oceanic bryophytes and it can be reached by the 29 Bus from Brighton; alight at Hendall Gate Farm...

The Wakehurst Woods are part of a larger SSSI: The Wakehurst & Chiddingly Woods SSSI; Wakehurst Woods are to the west of Kew's Wakehurst...

The exact locations of these ferns has not been included in this account; to protect them should there be fern collectors still around....

Worthlodge Forest is a relic of the former Royal hunting forest of Worth. Worth Forest has a more unified block of near-continuous...

I reached Eridge Rocks by the 29 bus from Brighton. For details of how to get to Eridge Rocks by bus see: Eridge Rocks: A wonderland of...

A wonderful opportunity to walk along an ancient sunken drovers pathway through woodland. The one mile circuitous route takes the walker...

This trip to Leonardslee Gardens was a wonderful experience, as I learnt a great deal, and saw many new-to-me species. As a novice...

Fore Wood is an RSPB nature reserve just outside Crowhurst. I reached Crowhurst by train from Brighton, via St Leonards Warrior Square....

I visited Fairlight Glen again on 19.06.23. It is in the Hastings County Park, where the High Weald Wealden sandstone meet the sea. It is...