Fourteen members of the Kent Field Club and Kent Botanical Recording Group met for a joint meeting at Tutt Hill on 16th July to record the arable flora on field margins close to the HS1 railway.

The geology here is the Folkestone Formation (Lower Greendsand) and the flora reflected this sandy bedrock. The undoubted highlight was a small population of small-flowered catchfly Silene gallica whilst other plants of interest included wall bedstraw Galium parisiense, prickly sedge Carex muricata and corn spurry Spergula arvensis.

Text and photo courtesy of Alfie Gay.