The Warren 



[Halksworth Wheeler, Folkestone 



Pink, mauve Sea Rocket, Yellow Stonecrop, and deep blue Vipers 

 Bugloss give drifts of colour in summer. On the chalk cliffs are Rock 

 Samphire, Sea Lavender, Valerian and Wild Sea Cabbage, the ancestor of 

 our garden varieties, with other treasures, some rare, some more common. 



Proximity to the Continent probably explains why curious alien 

 weeds sometimes appear among farm crops and along road sides, some to 

 disappear after a season, others to become established, so that revisions 

 of local flora lists always include several hitherto unrecorded species. 

 Over 1,000 different kinds of wild plants have been listed, some peculiar 

 to this part of East Kent, so the district is a happy hunting ground for 

 botanists. 



Waterside plants will be found in plenty along the Military Canal 

 and in the dykes and streams of Romney Marsh. Dungeness, approaching 

 beauty for a short time at midsummer, has a unique flora of shingle 

 beds and marsh around the fresh water pits which are a curious feature 

 of this usually grim and windswept region. The bogs at Hothfield 

 Common near Ashford, are remarkable as the only area in southeast 

 England where can be found Bog Asphodel, Bog Cotton, Marsh St. Johns 

 Wort and other bog plants ordinarily associated with high moorland in 

 the West and North country. The area has been scheduled as one of 

 special scientific interest. 



In order to understand the bird life of this corner of Kent, it must 

 be appreciated that, as the varied nature of the countryside accounts 



