Devon SSSI nature reserve and eco lodges - Maggie's Blog
28 March
Primroses and more daffodils...
This is one of my turning points in the year - the first wild primroses flowering on the hedge banks. Things are going green now, grass is beginning to shoot (good for the voles, and so good for the owls). Today was warm. Ian's bees were out working the flowers, and the daffodils are really going strong now.
I've had to rethink my attitude to daffodils. I've never been a big fan, particularly when they come in contrived rings round the base of trees.
But ours spring up all over the back paddock (slowly being reverted to the orchard it once was). They are great to cut for the table (and of course the lodges), and anything that flowers early helps the bees.
Although these probably aren't the best - they are hybrids with fluffy flowers that are so heavy they fall over in the wind. Bred for show rather than the pollen the bees need. Still, they can stay for now.
I shan't tell my sister - she's been known to take her big stick to daffs. But perhaps she has more excuse in Scotland!