The pomegranates are popping on the #tree in Grange Road, #Lewes!

At Southover Grange on 24th December 1983 - Happy 42nd Wedding Anniversary to us!

Still some Small Scabious in flower on the #Wildflower #Lewes path bank at Lewes Cemetery. Wonder what we will find during our #NewYearPlantHunt on Friday 2nd January, 10-12, at Lewes Railway Land? All welcome to join us - hot drinks and biscuits when we finish!

Beautiful reddish bark on this Strawberry #Tree, (Arbutus unedo), in South Way, #Lewes, and some of the white bell-like flowers too!

Marvellous - more #trees in our Arboretum Town - #Lewes!

2025 has been a great year for #Swifts in #Lewes - 25 more Swift boxes installed, Swifts recorded entering 107 different nests, Swift parade to welcome back the Swifts, 10 Swift-friendly Town events, 4 Swift walks, and 7 expert speakers to share actions for nature recovery!

What has our team achieved in 2025? 🌳Planted 63 #trees 🌳Spent 306 hours weeding and mulching 🌳Led 5 guided tree walks 🌳 Held 5 events to promote the value of trees 🌳Recorded 195 species so far on our inventory of all the different trees species we can find in #Lewes!

Large flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plover put on a good display in yesterday's sunshine at Rye Harbour In this photo #goldenplover are higher than the #lapwing @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came along to #Lewes #Climate Hub today to share festive nibbles and mulled apple juice, listen to beautiful singing from Starfish and Angels with Attitude, and to share their hopes and dreams for next year. See you when we open up again on 14th January.

A day in the rain - to plant Black Poplars at Laughton Greenwood, near #Lewes, in the morning and a Rowan #tree near Laughton Church in the afternoon.

What a beautiful day we had to plant the last batch of 57 #trees around Convent Field, #Lewes, this morning - four Crataegus x prunifolia Splendens, (Cockspurthorn), six Malus Evereste, (Crab Apple), and one Quercus ilex, (Holm Oak). Great work everyone!

Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at #Lewes STEM Festival today! Here are just a few of the pendants to celebrate wildlife in #trees, chosen from those made by over a 100 young artists who came to our stall. Congratulations to the STEM team on a very well-organised event!

Fantastic attendance of 1,500 people at the #Lewes STEM Festival today! Over 100 joined us to make bug hotels, colour a #Swift fact sheet or make a Swift pendant. Some children sought us out to find out about Swifts because they love them so much - what more could you ask for?

A photograph of a Swift in Oslo won Asmund Kellen the award of nature photographer of the year: naturephotographeroftheyear.com/previous-edi...

RSPB has announced the bird of the year - Swifts! www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/...

16 more #trees planted around Convent Field, #Lewes, by our team today! They are 8 Sorbus thuringiaca Fastigiata, (Hybrid Whitebeam), and 8 Prunus padus, (Bird Cherry). We planted 30 trees there last Sunday and will be back next weekend to plant 11 more.

We hoped that the fine weather over the summer would help towards a recovery in insect numbers, and we seemed to see more while monitoring the #Swifts in #Lewes. However, according to Buglife, their survey suggests a 19% decrease year by year. buglife.org.uk/news/

We planted 30 #trees around the perimeter of Convent Field today! Later in the month we have 26 more to plant, thanks to generous sponsorship and support from Lewes District Council, Lewes Town Council, @friendsoflewes.bsky.social, the Mosaic Project, Chalk Cliff Trust and #Lewes residents.

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!

Some of the beautiful leaves we collected from under the #trees at Southover Grange, #Lewes - from the Indian Bean Tree, Liquidambar, Tulip tree, Ginkgo, Chestnut-leaved Oak, Judas tree, and Japanese Maple.

Bringing sunshine colours on a rainy day - the golden leaves of the Cappadocian Maple, (Acer cappadocicum 'Aureum'), in Malling Deanery Arboretum. So many lovely #trees in #Lewes!

🌱 "We are part of nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves." —Andy Goldsworthy

Some of the dazzling autumn leaves we saw on our visit to Malling Deanery Arboretum, #Lewes, yesterday to share information about the #trees with the owner. There were so many different colours and shapes!

On a little #tree in our # Lewes garden - Spindle leaves - Euonymus europaeus

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.

Another beautiful Liquidambar! This one is at the end of Church Lane, #Lewes, and the carpet of leaves was a lovely reflection of the colours on the #tree.

Continuing our inventory of the #trees in #Lewes- this enormous tree at the front of St. Anne's Church has been identified by Peter Thurman as Phillyrea latifolia, (Green Olive Tree).

#Lewes Floods Event at the Town Hall today. We're collecting ideas for #tree planting in 2026!

We're all set up at the Town Hall - ready for the Floods Event on Saturday 1st November, 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. - explaining how the #trees of #Lewes play an important part in flood prevention.

Another surprise addition to our #tree inventory! Tumbling gracefully over the wall of a garden in Rotten Row, #Lewes - Styphnolobium japonicum 'pendula', (Weeping Japanese Pagoda Tree).

"I couldn't believe they found them, it was remarkable." Volunteers trained by the the Lost Woods Project have discovered a new population of Hazel Dormice in the Weald, at Lindfield, West Sussex.

Yesterday morning we had a lovely walk around #Lewes to map some more trees for our ongoing #tree inventory. With the expert guidance of Peter Thurman we recorded some real beauties, including this Red Oak, Quercus rubra, next to East Sussex College.

Wonderful pomegranates on this Pomegranate #Tree in Grange Road, #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.

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.

Every year I look forward to seeing the fiery Autumn colours of this Ash #tree on Malling Recreation Ground, #Lewes.

A stunning Ginkgo biloba #tree in the front garden of a House in Barons Down Road, #Lewes. The gentleman who lives there was just coming out to mow the lawn and he said that his mother grew it over 20 years ago and gave it to him when it was only a few inches tall!

Our tribute to the Yellow-breasted Chat of Verizon Plaza, which delighted photographers during its unusually long stay, beginning Sep 29 and ending on Oct 18, after which it likely migrated onward—one of the all-time great chats. 💛

YES! It’s that time of year when the fantastic Sussex Bird Report is dropping through your letterboxes! Huge thanks to the amazing team of volunteers who give up so much time to compile this incredible publication.

A Willow Emerald damselfly in Three Oaks just now...

Sharing from Hannah Bourne-Taylor: Next week Peers will vote for or against Swift bricks. To help Swifts, please email 📨 [email protected] 📨[email protected] who are both crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS, putting SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line.

Beautiful colours on this Liquidambar styraciflua Worplesdon #tree that we planted in Prince Edward's Road, #Lewes, in November 2021 - before the wind came!

We are very pleased to report that we have just received grant funding from Lewes Town Council! The money will be used to fund our next #tree planting projects in #Lewes in November. Thank you very much to LTC for their support of our Arboretum Town!

A pot of gold in our garden in #Lewes - the little Pomegranate #Tree

Leeds Swifts - and Swifts - are featured in episode 2 of Hamza's Wild Isles, BBC 1 iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Beautiful Magpie Inkcaps by Judas Art, posted on the Nature Table. So-called cos of its magpie-like black and white markings. The white spots are fragments of its original velum or veil. These are toxic. Look but don't touch. It's always best not to touch or disturb fungi - for your sake & its!

Toasty autumn colours on the special Maple #tree at the edge of The Paddock, #Lewes!

Golden glow on the Pomegranate #tree at the bottom of School Hill, #Lewes, and a strangely twisted trunk. Old photograph from 1914, and a letter from RHS that confirms it as Punicus granatum "Nana" - a dwarf double - flowered variety.