Talking green roofs/sand dunes & biodiversity coastal, open-mosaic & post-industrial habitat series

The second coastal habitat in the series re these kind of landscapes plus open-mosaic and post-industrial habitats and how they link to green roofs & biodiversity net gain, Sandwich Bay is another place I spent a lot of time birdwatching as a teenager. In fact I was a voluntary warden at the Kent Wildlife Nature reserve protecting the Little Tern Colony. Whilst sand dunes are normally associated with tall grasses from the strand line to the rear wildflowers also proliferate. And nearly all that don't require pure saline conditions also thrive on biodiverse green roofs:
Lady's bedstraw - Galium verum
Hare's foot clover - Trifolium arvense
Vipers bugloss - Echiu vulgare
Common restharrow - Ononis repens
to name a few. One of the reasons for my visit to Sandwich was to get some video footage of our native Sea holly - Eryngium maritimum. This is the wild one a relative of the horticultural variety Eryngium planum which I specified for a green roof in Hoxton, London. You can find out more in this video • Talking a Mexican Hill...
The video also features Linnets Linaria cannabina - which feed on the sand dunes but they also feed on good biodiverse green roofs in London.
Some links to other videos relevant to this one:
An introduction to the series - • TALKING COASTAL/OPEN-M...
Vegetated shingle episode - • TALKING VEGETATED SHIN...
A green roof in the shadow of St. Paul's - • A green roof in the sh...
I also share a lot of shorter videos on various other networks:
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FB - tinyurl.com/2w97z8sf
Instagram - tinyurl.com/e9apks3h
Many of which I plan combine into longer videos to be published at the end of the week on Sundays.
And I would like to thank ©Kevin Simmonds (rspb-images.com)

[@dougreed1289]

Really enjoying the series. Thanks for sharing.

[@DustyGedge]

Hey thanks. I now have an addition as just come back from NW Italy where filmed wildflowers on alluvial riverbeds this will come in a month or so.

[@dougreed1289]

@DustyGedge Brilliant. Look forward to it. Recently bought the book; Wildflower Wonders: the best 50 best wildflower sites in the world so hope I can visit some in the future. Though, as you show, you can see interesting wildflowers even in your average city.

[@DustyGedge]

@@dougreed1289 might have to have a look at that.

[@JimRobertson]

I might have missed it in your various videos, but I don't hear you talking about bird's foot trefoil or stonecrop. Both, in my ignorance,would seem to be candidates for green roofs

[@DustyGedge]

Well I do talk about sedums in green roof in the Shadow of St. Paul’s and The Mexican Plateau. It gets technical re sedums because the default ‘system’ is sedums especially in Canada. Even the Germans call these roofs sedums deserts. So for quite I was against sedums but learnt a mix with wildflowers is actually good. Esp in continent climates (Canada). The sedums help the wildflowers during the heat. Re Birdsfoot trefoil- can’t think where I have talked about it but it is very important wildflowers over here on green roofs as a food plant for a butterflies.

[@DustyGedge]

Do talk about Birdsfoot trefoil a lot at end of the first in this series towards the end. It is the one about vegetated shingle.

[@JimRobertson]

@@DustyGedge Guess I better pay better attention!!!

[@JimRobertson]

@@DustyGedge My bad, I hadn't learned that sedum = stonecrop. Had better go back to school.