Tuesday 22nd December 2009 Manston Flower
In
case anyone is interested the flower found by Roly W C at the Manston
Stables on Dec 19 is White Campion not a Primula species. I have
seen the species in flower once this month here near Portsmouth but the
normal flowering period given by Frances Rose in his Wildflower Key' is May
to October. May I take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all
contributors to Planet Thanet which is I check more than once a week and
always find some interest and amusement. I have an interest in the area
having been at St Edmunds School at Canterbury for three years after the
Canterbury schools came back from a very interesting wartime evacuation to
hotels on the Cornish cliffs near St Austell - while at Canterbury I cycled
over much of the area you cover and I think at least one of your
contributors (Simon Mount) is probably a descendant of the Mounts who were
at school with me and whose family owned orchards in the Blean Woods area -
in the very cold winter of 1947 we boys were sent into those orchards to
gather firewood to give the school some heat! I am now 78 but still take an
active interest in wildlife in the south of England - see
http://ralph-hollins.net/index.html (Ralph Hollins)
Saturday 19th December 2009
Stables Manston
What is happening to the seasons, I was
working in one of the paddocks, when I spotted this flower. I'm told it is a
Primula and apparently shouldn't be out till Apr/May. A little
beauty.!! (Roly W.C)
