Update: Our walk on Thursday 25th is postponed until Wednesday 1st July 6.30pm. The met office have issued an extreme heat warning with temperatures up to 37C on 25th and still hot into the evening.

Come along for an evening stroll in Froyle to identify local flora. Meet 6.30pm at outside St May’s Church, Ryebridge Lane, Upper Froyle. The walk will be led by Isobel Girvan, an experienced botanist who works for Surrey Wildlife Trust.

We’ll be spotting wildflowers on roadside verges, field edges alongside public rights of way as well as other areas.
All welcome, come and find out what plants occur locally and learn to identify them.

What did we spot? Meeting outside St May’s Church, Upper Froyle we were met with the sight of the mower cutting the churchyard. So there were virtually no wildflowers remaining to see and identify. An area that in previous years had been allowed to grow long had also been cut. It leaves me question whether there is any space for nature in God’s acre.
After our initial disappointment, we visited the Lime Avenue public footpath, there was White Bryony; the pink flowers of Field Bindweed and the white flowers of Greater Bindweed (that has a traditional childhood nickname of ‘granny pop out of bed’). Arriving at the wildlife pond and meadow near Gid Lane, we saw a wonderful diverse range of British native wildflowers, including Wild Carrot, Tufted Vetch, Hops, Birds-foot Trefoil, Marjoram, Water Mint, Meadow Crane’s-bill, Teasle, Lady’s Bedstraw, Purple Loosestrife and Meadow Sweet. A lovely finish to our stroll, enhanced by Isobel’s flora identification tips.