A few days ago, I posted a picture of a purple salsify flowering in a Canterbury garden. Here are the same flowers, growing wild on one of the grassy banks in the Rye harbour Nature Reserve.
The Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. An oystercatcher walking around one of the pools, probing the edge of the water for food. Its young chick was following behind, copying its example, as an avocet was doing much the same on the opposite shore.
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Rock samphire growing on a wall
Growing on the modern roadside wall around St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, rock samphire.
A lone avocet sieves one of the many pools on the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. These pictures were taken from the main access road running along the edge of the reserve, past the Visitor Centre, towards the end of the Rother estuary.
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Deadly nightshade, Rye churchyard
A deadly nightshade flowering. I thought it was rather an odd choice as one of those planted beside a path in the churchyard of Rye parish church.
Small-leaved plantain lilies, a form of hosta, evidently a favourite of someone who had responsibility for planting the vegetation along the Great Stour in Westgate Park, Canterbury.