A lot more there than I saw in the fields up by the Youth Hostel recently - though that was a couple of weekends ago, so maybe those ones have come on a bit since then, At that time, the word I'd have used would be 'sparse'.
Strangely enough, there was a bit about daffs in the papers yesterday saying how the cold winter has put them all back and there's a shortage. James Hosking at Fentongollan near Truro said his harvest has been put back three weeks. Paul Clarke in Camborne said four weeks.
Some interesting daffodils facts were mentioned too:
Prince Charles is paid an annual rent of one daffodil by the Environmental Trust on the Isles of Scilly for all its uncultivated land.
In Ancient Greece, they symbolised death.
And one for and missp - Poultry keepers once thought the daffodil unlucky and would not allow it in their homes as they believed it would stop their hens laying or eggs hatching.
How true those facts are, I'm afraid I don't know!
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