All the known Sefton sites for the British endemic Isle of Man Cabbage (Coincya monensis ssp. monensis) were visited in late May/early June 2015 and numbers of plants counted. At Crosby Marine Park, where sand was removed from a dune ridge for a 2011 coast protection scheme, 1361 plants were found on the extracted ridge...
A pattern of dry spring months has been evident for over a decade, March having only 65% of normal rainfall in England and Wales. An unexpected deluge came on 12th-13th but a small recovery in the height of the dune water-table in mid-month was subsequently lost. The ponds at Freshfield Dune Heath Nature Reserve remained...
Salix × doniana on Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve, October 2013 Philip H. Smith, Patricia A. Lockwood & David Mercer The five known bushes of the nationally rare willow hybrid Salix × doniana on Ainsdale Sand Dunes NNR were revisited on the morning of 15th October 2013, having been last surveyed on 1st...