Primroses continue to astonish in this cool, damp month – mud-splattered blooms merge with bluebell leaves and white stitchwort along the narrow lanes and, near Halton Quay and above the Cotehele millstream, masses of them drift across very steep slopes.
In cherished woodland plots, the usual succession of old-fashioned, orange-cupped narcissi (Lucifer, Croesus, Sunrise and Bernardino) were rain‑battered and soon past their best; then pheasant-eye actaea flowered before Easter, succeeded by the dainty horace with its pure white petals around a flat, red‑rimmed centre.
