Fieldfare - photo courtesy of Chris Comersall
Wild daffodils - photo courtesy of Ross Hoddinott
T
he yellow trumpets of daffodils brighten up the dullest spring day as they cluster together in gardens, on roadsides and in parks during March and April. But these are often the planted or escaped garden varieties. A real treat is spotting a wild daffodil among the dappled shade of an ancient woodland or pushing up through the grasses of a damp meadow. During early Spring, swathes of wild daffodils (Narcissus pseadonarcissus) spread their yellow blaze through meadows, woodland and field margins. They reach their greatest concentrations on the Herefordshire/ Gloucestershire border around Newent, Dymock and Ledbury; ‘the wild daffodil centre of England’. But the wild daffodil is also patchily distributed throughout Herefordshire. You can see them at our Lea & Paget’s Wood and Wessington Pasture Nature Reserves on the Woolhope Dome.
Wild Daffodil
The wild daffodil, with a delicacy and freshness that garden varieties don’t possess, has a distinctive golden yellow trumpet surrounded by a paler outer whorl of six segments. The Wild 48
