Looking at the plantlife

We took a walk on the beach at Sizewell to survey the plant life in the vegetated shingle - a rare and sensitive habitat. The plants in the shingle have adapted to cope with the harsh conditions close to the strandline, where they grow. Some of them, for example, have tap roots are much as two metres long. There is a real variety of plants, which look so colourful and attract loads of insects and butterflies - we saw bees, butterflies and day-flying moths. These pictures show harebell, sea holly, sea campion and sea kale, which were among at least 30 species we found in a stretch of shingle roughly six metres wide and half a mile long.