Category: David

Views of one of the front gardens in the cathedral close at Canterbury.

For contrast, the final view in the slide show is looking over the wall to the National Trust allotments at Winchelsea.

This is one of the gardens on the square of streets around the old parish church at Rye.

Here, from Winchelsea again, is not so much a front garden as plantings in a narrow strip of soil between a high garden wall and the road. In the narrow strip there’s variety from spurges, roses and alkanets, all topped off with a handkerchief tree joining the ensemble from the other side of the wall.

Two adult coots and some chicks. I didn’t watch for long enough to observe whether the adults were a pair, or whether the chicks were theirs.

From very early in May, a greater celandine plant which had forced its way through the pavement of a residential street was flowering.

One of the West Park carrion crows prospecting for things to eat among the short grass and daisies.

A magnolia by the lake in West Park. The thin stems which held the flowers were growing straight upwards from the branches. The tree was flowering back in early May.

Judas tree growing by the West Park Conservatory. It was in full flower back in early May. I took this picture from the opposite shore of the lake, to get it reflected in the calm water.