We go down to Bexley to look at the Victorian Post Box (a Penfold Original)

A Sunny but Windy day. We had intended to go to the Post Box, via Hall Place, where we were going to look for Bees but shortly after arriving at Hall Place, the Clouds rolled in and we thought it might Rain. So we abandoned that idea and started walking towards Bexley and the Post Box.

But Wow: after crossing the A2 (Road) we noticed Steps leading down to a Footpath running beside the A2. And beside the Steps we noticed three Navelwort Plants viz.

Grid Reference: TQ499741 or thereabouts. Wow: the second time we have found Navelwort locally: the first time, during 2017, in the Erith area (and mentioned in Kent Botany 2017). Navelwort is on the Kent Rare Plant Register.

The new Sightings have been submitted to the Kent Botanical Recording Group.

Plant' Species seen on the way to the Bus Stop whilst en-route to Bexleyheath included:

Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Green Alkanet
Henbit Dead-Nettle
Jersey Cudweed
Lesser Swine-Cress
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Rue-Leaved Saxifrage
Sweet Violet
and Water Bent

Thereafter:

[i] Monad TQ5074: Plant' Species seen included:

Buck's-Horn Plantain
Common Field-Speedwell
Common Mallow
Common Ragwort
Green Alkanet
Henbit Dead-Nettle
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Red Dead-Nettle
and Yarrow

[ii] Monad TQ4974: Plant' Species seen included:

Buck's-Horn Plantain
Common Field-Speedwell
Feverfew
Grape Hyacinth
Lesser Celandine
Lords-and-Ladies (Arum maculatum)
Navelwort
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Purple Toadflax
Sowbread
and Yarrow

[iii] Monad TQ4973: Plant' Species seen included:

Common Mallow
Cow Parsley
Four-Leaved Allseed
Green Alkanet
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Lesser Celandine
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Red Dead-Nettle
Red Valerian
Rue-Leaved Saxifrage
Sweet Violet
and Trailing Bellflower

Oh: and the Post Box: