Many fritillaries

It was a beautiful sunny morning, so I took the opportunity to go down to Thorpe Meadows to look at a hay-meadow that, after a period of neglect, had undergone restoration management last autumn. I was delighted to find the snake's-head fritillaries in bloom, and counted over 100 individual flowers, a significant increase from the last few years. There were also lots of cowslips in flower, and many plants of meadow buttercup, great burnet, adder's-tongue and wild angelica. All in all a great success.