Walk 2 on our search for flowers for early bees – a stroll through the oldest streets to the churchyard, the fishermen’s cottages and The Crouch.
Some of these flowers have been there to be sniffed since New Year and all are good for pollinators.
- Elephant’s Ears / Bergenia
- Winter Heliotrope
- Japanese Mahonia stays a medium size bush and has softer yellow dangling flowers
- Winter Honeysuckle (a bush)
- Daphne in 2 places
- Green Hellebore corsica
- Clematis cirrhosa balearica (from Majorca etc)
- Rosemary in 3 places. This is properly open in late spring but it opens in winter when it has the warmth of a wall.
- Hebe/Veronica in several places is an autumn flower with a long season by the coast.
- Viburnum bodnantense – pink scented – only sometimes attracts a bee.
- Snowflake/Leucojum
The ancient road from Sutton to Seaford churchyard still has many of its green banks.
Winter Heliotrope is in more than 1 place in the churchyard but the warmest place for a bee will be at the bottom .
From Church Street follow the bend round to the sun baked and wind blasted gardens of the South St. cottages and the recent fountain garden with a bench.Continue past the Barn Theatre to Crouch Lane. Trees for Seaford planted two of the newly bred disease resistant Elms on the remaining grass of The Crouch medieval market place.
After sniffing at least 4 scents in the walled gardens of the former Crouch House you can complete the walk circuit via a straight twitten between the houses behind the football stand.
It’s well worth a visit to the Community garden tucked away in the walled gardens. This is open on Wednesday mornings.
Melene
