My old mate Andy Tasker seems to be causing a bit of a stir with his website IHateDaffodils His contention is that they don't belong in the English countryside, apart from those few small areas where they are native, and are ousting our own native flora.
I have mixed views about this (sorry, Andy). I agree that planting non-native species in the wider countryside is a Bad Thing. Always. Daffs are no exception. But I'm not convinced that they are aggressively invasive in the same way as, for instance, Japanese knotweed.
Having said that, I visited one of the Notts Wildlife Trust's remotest nature reserves, down a bone-shaking gravel track out the back of a miles-from-anywhere village. And lo and behold, there in the reserve entrance...
A nice clump of daffs.
Who is it that does this? Who travels all these miles to add to the aesthetic appeal of our finest widlife sites with the addition of a clump of Tete a Tete? I would like to meet them. With no witnesses around.
Musings, ramblings and the occasional news update from Steve & Karin Alton
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