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    re: the opening post here, i have received this e mail from councillor pat sherratt
    that sheds light on yet more committed volunteers doing their level best to make dover a better place without wanting to be in the limelight

    pat has kindly given permission for it to be posted here.


    Hi Howard

    Good to see you this morning on the seafront.

    Paul Holt gave an interesting talk with regard to plants that are tolerant to shingle conditions. As he went out of his way to explain there are no weeds only various species of wild plants.

    The event was on the DTC website and was organised by Dover Arts Development (Joanna Jones and Clare Smith).

    100 of the small plug plants were ordered from British Wild Flower Plants (BWFP). However BWFP were so pleased that this community led planting was to take place they donated another 900 plugplants. Hence why we needed a good workforce on the seafront this morning.

    Several varieties were recommended by Paul (I hope to get a list at sometime) and as they are small and the shingle is walked on a high percentage will not survive. But as Paul stated those that do will, like at Samphire Hoe, generate the natural shingle species. Interestingly over 3000,000 plug plants were planted on the shingle at Samphire Hoe

    As there are no weeds (only wild plants) at some time I expect there may be a need to be selective with what plants are retained.

    The volunteers took about three hours to do the planting.

    Am sending the initial details from Dover Arts Development as all those organisations that assisted are shown.(RIBA, Dover Arts Development, Tonkin Liu, Dover Town Council, White Cliffs Countryside and British Wild Flower Plants)

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