Well: it looks like Spring might finally be Underway

Hopefully we don't tempt fate by suggesting this. UPDATE 12 April: it looks like we might have done!

Although bouts of Sunshine are few and far between, the two 'Chilly Spells' are becoming Distant Memories: hopefully not to be Repeated, this Spring and Summer at least.

But during the past few days we have seen enough to think that, 'Spring might finally be Underway' viz.

We revisit the local Navelworts

The local Navelworts are spread out over a thirty yard plus stretch of a Moss covered Wall.

We submitted the Sighting to the Kent Botanical Recording Group (KBRG). Navelwort is on the Kent Rare Plant Register.

How the Navelworts arrived locally is anyone's guess.

Kent Botany 2017, refers to this 'population on a retaining wall … opposite commercial premises', and goes on to say, 'It is a location where it is difficult to conceive of intentional planting and the origin of the species here is mysterious'.

Some more Mosses:

The Dandelions are Coming out to Play

Dandelions are Super-Attractive to Little Critters including Bees, Bee Flies, Butterflies &c. and we are looking forward to seeing them visit Dandelions during the coming Months.

As an aside, we understand that there are two hundred plus, 'microspecies', of Dandelion! It surely needs someone with a Big Brain and/or the Time but probably Both, to be able to differentiate between them.

And Three Hurrahs: the Dandelions are starting to flower now viz.