CORNISH HEDGES - MARITIME HEDGE FLORA
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, on top of a dry Cornish hedge near Cape Cornwall.)
. When the hedge has been spoilt by flailing its place is taken by cow parsley and hogweed. Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum), another umbellifer which prefers to grow near the sea, is overwhelming maritime hedges as the flail-mowings enrich the soil.)
 commonly grows in poor soils near the sea, thriving here on a dry hedgetop near Cape Cornwall (with one ribwort plantain, left foreground).)
 is still to be found in seaside hedges where there is shell-sand in the fill of the hedge, like this dune-side hedge on St Ives Bay which so far seems luckily to have escaped flailing.)
, beloved of bees, still thrives on some dry, sunny coastal hedges where the flail has not been used.)
 is abundant on bare, dry hedges near the coast, as in this Cornish hedge near St Just-in-Penwith.)
