Wild Flowers seen in St Paul's Churchyard, the City of London (TQ3281)

Included:

Annual Meadow-Grass
Black Medick (see below)
Buck's-Horn Plantain viz.

Cock's-Foot

Common Field-Speedwell

Common Mouse-Ear viz.

Common Ragwort (unlikely to flower due to mowing regime)
Creeping Buttercup viz.

Daisy
Dandelion viz.

Greater Plantain
Groundsel

Hart's-Tongue Fern
Jersey Cudweed (see below)

Petty Spurge

Red Dead-Nettle
Sow-Thistle

Thyme-Leaved Speedwell viz.

Wall Speedwell
White Clover viz. 

and Yarrow (unlikely to flower due to mowing regime)

Jersey Cudweed and Black Medick viz. 

Some Wild Flowers on Bostall Heath

We spent about 60 minutes on the small section (in TQ4777) where Longleigh Lane meets Brampton Road viz.

Wild Flowers &c. seen included:

Buck's-Horn Plantain viz. 

Clustered Clover (don't remember seeing it on the Heath before: no recent records apparently, so have submitted the record to the Kent Botanical Recording Group) viz.

Common Chickweed

English Oak

Fairy-Purses (aka Shepherd's-Purse) 

Foxglove viz.

Beaked Hawksbeard

Hedge Mustard viz.

Herb Robert

Hop Trefoil viz.

Red Dead-Nettle

Ribwort Plantain viz. 

Soft Brome viz.

Spotted Medick

and Wall Barley

Wild Flowers seen flowering in the Plumstead Cemetery during a short visit

We didn't venture too far: just a hundred yards or so, if that:

Black Medick viz.

Bulbous Buttercup

Common Field-Speedwell

Common Mouse-Ear viz.

Common Vetch viz.

Daisy viz.

Dandelion

Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill

Early Forget-me-Not viz.

Germander Speedwell viz.

Mouse-Ear Hawkweed 

Oxeye Daisy

Red Clover

Ribwort Plantain
Meadow Foxtail viz.

Spotted Medick

and Sweet Vernal-Grass

(Dark-Edged) Bee-Fly sightings for 2024

All Sightings are submitted to iRecord: see ... https://dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch ...

26 March 2024: one (1) Bee-Fly on Bostall Heath

30 March 2024: one (1) Bee-Fly in the Upper Belvedere area

6 April 2024: sixteen (16) Bee-Flies on the Crossness Nature Reserve and surrounding area, including this one...

7 April 2024: seven (7) Bee-Flies on the Crossness Nature Reserve and surrounding area

12 April 2024: one (1) Bee-Fly on Bostall Heath

13 April 2024: four (4) Bee-Flies on the Erith Southern Marsh 

13 April 2024: one (1) Bee-Fly beside the Ridgeway in the Thamesmead/Belvedere area

13 April 2024: two (2) Bee-Flies in Lesnes Abbey Park

13 April 2024: eight (8) Bee-Flies on the Crossness Nature Reserve and surrounding area

18 April 2024: three (3) Bee-Flies on Bostall Heath

21 April 2024: one (1) Bee-Fly beside the Ridgeway in the Thamesmead/Belvedere area

29 April 2024: three (3) Bee-Flies on Bostall Heath

4 May 2024: two (2) Bee-Flies on Bostall Heath

5 May 2024: two (2) Bee-Flies on Bostall Heath

8 May 2024: two (2) Bee-Flies on Bostall Heath: including this one...

Wild Flowers on Bostall Heath seen during a short visit included

Annual Meadow Grass

Balkan Spurge

Bluebell

Broad-Leaved Dock

Broom

Bush Vetch

Cleavers

Common Chickweed

Common Mallow

Common Mouse-Ear

Common Vetch

Coral Spurge

Cow Parsley

Cut-Leaved Crane's-Bill

Daisy

Dandelion

Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill

Fairy-Purses aka Shepherd's-Purse

Field Forget-me-Not

Foxglove

Garlic Mustard

Gorse

Green Alkanet

Hedge Mustard

Herb Robert

Honesty

Mugwort

Ox-Eye Daisy

Red Dead-Nettle

Ribwort Plantain

Round-Leaved Crane's-Bill

Sheep's-Sorrel viz.

Shining Crane's-Bill

Sowbread

Spear Thsitle 

Sticky Mouse-Ear

and Wood Sage