Despite experiencing computer problems which caused chaos early on, May was a successful month during which 35 items of information were received from 34 contributors, so that the Archive now contains 7,735 items of information from 2247 contributors.  Thank you everyone.

As is usual for May a large number of searches of the website were made during the month: 13,966, well up from the 8784 made in April, but down on the record 14,914 made in May 2017.   706 searches, the most ever in one day, were made on 12 May.  It is disappointing that despite so much use being made of the website, no one contributed new information as a result.

Images were selected for possible use on the dust jacket of Vickery’s Folk Flora, and two minor publications were produced:

Cemetery Plants: Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) & Chickweed (Stellaria media), Friends of Brompton Cemetery Magazine 60: 2-3.

Oak Apple Day and stinging nettles, Cecidology 33: 18.

Image:  flowers attached to memorial bench to Robert Prowse, lost at sea 17 May 2012, Weymouth Old Harbour, Dorset, photographed 18 May 2018.

Edited 7 April 2022.