Three events coming up, details on the Events page of this website:

Saturday 13 April:  Springtime Wild Flowers walk, Brompton Cemetery, 2 p.m., booking preferred.  Fully booked.

Report: About 14 people turned up on a bright and sunny afternoon to spend about 80 minutes wandering around a small part of the Cemetery, and discussing some of the plants found there.  These included field woodrush, Luzula campestris, also known as Good Friday grass, which had almost finished flowering, and springbeauty, Claytonia perfoliata, also known as miners’ lettuce, native to western North America, previously recorded on the site by a London Natural History field meeting in 2020.

Sunday 14 April: Botany for Beginners (and Others) field meeting, Tooting Common, 2 p.m.

Report:  Seven people gathered and spent about two-and-a-half hours wandering around part of the Common and discussing the plants found there, starting with brambles, Rubus ssp., of which 35 species and microspecies have been recorded on the Common, and finishing by admiring star-of-Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum, first recorded here in 2017 and now thriving.

Monday 15 April: Springtime Wild Flowers walk, Wandsworth Common, 11.00 a.m., booking required.

Report:  Six of the seven people who had booked turned up, the other being discouraged by the heavy storm just before the walk was due to start.  By 11.00 the rain had ceased so we were able to spend a bright but chilly 75 minutes or so examining the plants in a small part of the Common, these included cleavers, Galium aparine, greater plantain, Plantago major, and rather battered looking star-of-Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum, which is obviously thriving here as well as on Tooting Common.

‘This was a lovely event.’

Image:  spring starflower, Tristagma uniflorum, native to South America, naturalised in Brompton Cemetery, April 2024.