Staffordshire's wild daffodils

Returning to Piggott's Bottom, to see the progress of Staffordshire's largest collection of pure wild daffodils, I was pleased to see that they are coming along very nicely - and that the area is undisturbed.

The view isn't as spectacular (yet) as those fields of orderly Scottish daffodils that were featured on our morning news. Apparently, the mild weather north of the border has meant that the cultivated daffs are now ready, too early, and clashing with the Cornish and other English cultivated daffs. The pickers are still down south and by the time they finish and head north, the flowers will be over and the prices will drop.

I confess to buying daffodils - but I still prefer to see them growing in woodland, as nature intended.