baycliff, cumbria. 2009
In April, May and June I made visits to the Beach House in Baycliff, Cumbria.
John Fox and Sue Gill commissioned me to document and collect plant specimens from around the site located on Morecambe Bay. The habitat was interesting: a wild garden nestled under an old hedgerow on an overgrown slope leading to a pebbly beach and mud flats where the tide comes in and over. The roof of both the house and studio have been planted up with grasses and flowers and where many other species have seeded themselves.
Over 175 different species of plants were identified including wild and garden varieties, trees, shrubs, grasses, ferns and ones used for culinary purposes. The collected plants have been used to create a small archive of specimen sheets.
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