Ramparts Field, Icklingham, Suffolk

At Ramparts Field picnic site thyme was growing very well in the grass, roughly about 40% thyme.
It was a great sight; a natural thyme lawn, but please do not try this at home!
 

Thyme growing with grass and hawkbit
at Ramparts Field.

Thyme growing with grass, moss and
lichen at Ramparts Field picnic site

Maidscross Hill, Lakenheath, Suffolk

Maidscross Hill, Lakenheath, is a typical Breckland heath with disused pits, with gravel and sand paths.
 

Thyme growing beside a path with
moss, lichen and short grasses.

Thyme growing beside gravel and
sand path with lichen and hawkbit

Icklingham Triangle, Icklingham, Suffolk

Icklingham Triangle is an area of heathland with rabbit grazed grass on sand, a good deal of
erosion around the rabbit holes and several large colonies of thyme.

Icklingham Triangle with grass growing on
the sand, with erosion around the rabbit holes.

Thyme growing in pure sand at Icklingham
Triangle with short grasses and moss.

Photographs © 2005  Margaret Easter.  No copying or reproduction permitted.