A large group gathered at Winterton for the opportunity to see some of the coastal specialities. Sea Rocket is doing very well and was found scattered all over the fore dunes.

Our jolly to Winterton Dunes NNR to see some of the coastal specialities did not disappoint.There was a lovely display of Sea Bindweed Calystegia soldanella, shown here scrambling amongst the abundant Marram Grass Ammophila arenaria.

We were excited to see this spiny thistle on a Norfolk Flora Group outing to Berney Marshes. A large stand was found growing in a drier area, around the base of a disused windmill alongside Breydon water.

A few small patches of this neat looking clover were found running around in dried up depressions on Berney marshes, amongst abundant Slender Trefoil Lotus tenuis and Hairy Buttercup Ranunculus sardous.

Walking along the sand dunes at Eccles-on-sea during a Norfolk Flora group meeting, Hatty spotted a violet growing amongst Sand Sedge Carex arenaria and Field wood-rush Luzula campetris.

An early season Norfolk Flora group outing to the grazing marshes was obviously a good time to catch the flowering rush Butomus umbellatus in flower.

During the Norfolk Flora Group outing to Thetford, we tried to find some different habitats within our mainly urban tetrad. We were pleased to find an arable field and there, growing along the edge were a few very neat looking dome-shaped plants about a foot high.

During my lunchtime walk around Bowthorpe Marshes, I noticed a patch of chickweed, growing in the long grass beneath some trees, along the edge of a the footpath.

We were looking out for tiny mouse-ears during the Norfolk Flora group ‘spring fling’ to the coast at Blakeney. We spotted a tiny white flower amongst a patch of Early Forget-me-not Myosotis ramosissima on a patch of dry sandy grassland.

Bob and I had ventured out to Blakeney village on an uncharacteristically cold and wet Easter Sunday, to find some species which have not been recorded since the Norfolk Flora was published in 1999.