Today, members of #Lewes Urban Arboretum, #Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes, were invited to the wonderful grounds of Northease Manor School to help to plant 165 mixed native whips. Great fun, very well organised, and lovely homemade soup made by Marcus Taylor!

Lots of Serotines, Common Pipistrelles and Soprano Pipistrelles on our #bat walk last night. The hot spot was above and behind two dead trees at the edge of Paddock Lane #Lewes.

We've just unloaded some beautiful #trees from Barcham trees for planting in #Lewes next month. We look forward to showing you them properly when they are planted. Here are Quercus palustris, Malus Evereste, and Quercus robur.

A very successful #litter pick around De Montfort Road and Abergavenny Road, #Lewes, this morning. Thank you to everyone who joined in!
Our next litter pick is on Sunday 30th November from 10.30 a.m. and meeting at the junction of Spital Road and Western Road.

Some of the wildflowers and one of the butterflies that we saw on our walk over Malling Down this morning.
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We enjoyed watching a group of nine House Martins going in and out of their nest cups on The Chequers pub in Lamberhurst this afternoon!

Some #wildflowers from a wander around #Lewes Cemetery this afternoon.

We saw lots of #butterflies at #Lewes Cemetery when we were mulching the trees there yesterday. These are some of the ones that kept still!

Rose Chafer on the second flush of Myrtle blossom, Gatekeeper #Butterfly on Hedge Bedstraw, and Mint #Moth on Marjoram

From 6.00 to 11.30 a.m. #Swifts have been screaming past our house in #Lewes. Entries at both sides of the double Peak box.
At times the Swifts were screaming past so close to our bedroom window that we could clearly see their smoky chocolate brown colouring.

@lewesarboretum.bsky.social First Hibiscus #flower, a close-up of the Verbascum and think we may have some flowers coming on the Pomegranate at home, grown from one of the cuttings from the #tree in the High Street, #Lewes!

Swallow-tailed #Moth - in De Montfort Road, #Lewes, last night.

Bellflower Melitta bees resting in our Harebells

Flowers in our garden