A small-flowered Evenint-primrose from a population found at Crosby Coastal Park was collected and sent to Rosemary Murphy, the national referee for Oenothera, earlier this year. Rosemary has now carried out a detailed examination of the plant material and has concluded that it is most likely the ‘triple hybrid’ Oenothera glazioviana x O. biennis x O.cambrica an identification which...
A rather unremarkable month for weather, August had average rainfall and a couple of short warm spells but was largely characterised by cool windy conditions. My frequent visits to the dunes revealed a surprising lack of large insects, especially dragonflies and butterflies. Thus, after a gale the previous day, I called in at our premier...
Philip H. Smith, August 2016 Introduction Together with the adjacent Seaforth Docks complex (now Liverpool Free Port), Crosby Coastal Park was reclaimed from the Mersey Estuary in the late 1960s. The section studied here extends south from Crosby Baths to the Freeport fence (Fig. 1). It has an elongated triangular shape about 1.6km long with...
Apart from a one-day heatwave on 19th when temperatures reached an oppressive 32oC, the month’s weather was unexceptional. Rainfall seems to have been about average but it was often cooler than expected in the first two and the last weeks. Predictably, the Devil’s Hole slack gradually dried up, though there was still a little surface...