This meeting will partly cover some of the same locations visited in last year’s New Forest meeting. Priority will be given to members who were not able to attend last year’s meeting.
Meet at 10.30 at the New Forest car park called ‘Shatterford’ Grid Ref: SU348064, which is on the B3056 Beaulieu Road heading south-west from Lyndhurst. Please note the turning for this car park is immediately before the road/rail bridge at Beaulieu Road railway station. There are no public toilet facilities at this car park, but there are toilets in the centre of Lyndhurst, which should be visited prior to meeting at Shatterford. Please bring waterproof boots (e.g. wellington boots).
The morning of the first day will be based around Shatterford Bottom, Beaulieu Road, and the afternoon will be spent exploring Hatchet Pond. What we see will heavily depend on the season, but we can hope to encounter plants such as Wild Gladiolus Gladiolus illyricus, Coral-necklace Illecebrum verticillatum, Marsh Clubmoss Lycopodiella inundata, Hampshire-purslane Ludwigia palustris and Lesser Bladderwort Utricularia minor.
The second day will be based in Dorset. Details of time and meeting location will be decided on day one. The morning will be spent at Moors Valley Country Park, near Ringwood, on the Hampshire/Dorset border. We can hope to see heathland plants such as Yellow Bartsia Parentucellia viscosa and a native population of Deptford Pink Dianthus armeria. In the afternoon we will explore Ashley Heath for Brown Beak-sedge Rhynchospora fusca and two naturalised aliens Highbush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum and American Cranberry Vaccinium macrocarpon.
To book, contact Janet John wfs.meetings@gmail.com
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