I just can’t resist heading out to our fields of gold with my camera at the moment!
golden fields of daffodils
Meg is always ready for a walk in the daffodil fields, finding rabbits both real and imaginary in between the rows. Our 2 young guests this week aged 5 and 8 have made frequent trips out to pick daffodils this week, much to Meg’s delight and indeed I was the lucky recipient of a bunch of these freshly picked flowers this morning as a thank you for their holiday this week. How touching!
The bulbs are often planted and left to multiply for a few years – I think these fields have been growing for 4 years and will be lifted this summer and the fields re-seeded with grass and we’ll have bulb fields elsewhere. These 2 fields produced flowers, ready to pick much earlier than most in the area this year, starting just after Christmas. This was due in part to them being an early variety but also because we are relatively sheltered here and these are south facing areas. Flowers were grown at Boscrowan years ago and privet was grown along some of the hedges to serve as a windbreak – it’s great that it is still so useful for wind protection now. The horses appreciate it too when they are turned out in the daytime and there’s a howling wind and rain.
