Kingley Vale is a National Nature Reserve famous for its historic Yews. I visit Kingley Vale regularly. Its yews, other trees, and short...

I visited Fairlight Glen twice in one week in order to explore it's bryophytes. My initial motivation was to see if I could find...

Marline Valley is a wonderful mix of semi-natural ancient woodland, unimproved meadows and a classic Sussex ghyll stream situated on the...

Over the weekend a local lichenologist saw a String of Sausages, Usnea aticulata, following a fellow member of the British Lichen Society...

This was the second time I have visited Eridge Rocks. It is easy to get to by bus from Brighton; take the 29 29 - Brighton-Tunbridge...

Eridge Park is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, to the east of Eridge Green Rock, south of Tunbridge Wells. The landscape is shaped...

I visited Markstakes Common, South Chailey (a Woodland Trust site) (not one of the 5 Chailey Commons) for the first time on 06.11.22, I...

I reached Church Wood from Brighton by getting a train to Hasting Station and then the 20 bus to the bus stop on Tile Barn Road, close to...

Hargate Forest is just south of Tunbridge Wells. I reached the forest by the 29 bus from Brighton. Alight the bus at the Broadwater Down...

Harrison Rocks (British Mountaineering Council are the western edge of Birchden Wood (Forestry England); which is west of Eridge (East...

Lake Wood, a Woodlands Trust wood Lake Wood - Visiting Woods - Woodland Trust , is a short walk from the centre of Uckfield. It is an extraordinary landscape; unlike anywhere I have been to in Sussex, although it's Ardingly Sandstone rocks are the same rocks as those of Eridge Rocks. What makes Lake Wood special is the human shaping of the landscape to make a picturesque landscape, including sculpting caves and steps in the rocks, shaping the lake and planting non-native tree

I visited Eridge Rocks Nature Reserve (Sussex Wildlife Trust), because I knew it was a site of special scientific interest for lichen and...

Tilgate Park I know quite well; it has marvellous collection of non-native trees, as well as native broadleaf tress. Tilgate Forest I had...

I visited Leornardslee Lakes and Garden to see the wallabies, deer, the beautiful colours of its autumn trees, and its fungi....

Park Wood is a wood of mixed ancient trees owned by the Environment Agency, with Hornbeam, Oak, Birch and Ash and some coniferous trees...

I returned to Stanmer Great Wood on Monday, after my journey there on Friday 28.10.22 Stanmer Great Wood is on the north-east of...

I found this dead Beech, Fagus sylvatica (?) yesterday in Stanmer Great Wood, Brighton; just south of the Upper Lodges car park (although...