Coltsfoot is usually the first wild flower to make an impression. Here it is, away from the serious nature reserve stuff getting on very well in land adjoining the car park amid the litter. It wins no prizes but has more luck than the flowers that try to survive in the nature reserve. Bog Asphodel, for example, received no respect from the managers of the wildlife trust. It was they who were responsible for Bog Asphodel being trampled when they imported cattle onto the site, making no arrangements for its protection. So much for agri-environment schemes. It's not as if they had not been warned about it many times.
As for the sheep in the enclosure, still part of the supposed 'nature reserve' and a SSSI and SPA to boot. the woolly mowers systematically demolished every wild flower in sight last year.
All in a good cause of course: the business strength of the conservation organisations funded by C.A.P.
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