Wild Daffodil Golden Triangle - Gloucestershire

The wildflowers of Britain are rightly famous — and among wild Daffodils, those of the Lake District, with their Wordsworth associations, are the most well known. The largest concentration however, is the area around the town of Newent and the villages of Dymock and Kempley on the Gloucestershire/Herefordshire border, dubbed the ‘Golden Triangle’

The yellow trumpets of daffodils brighten up the dullest spring day as they cluster together in gardens, on roadsides and in parks during March and April. But these are often the planted or escaped garden varieties. A real treat is spotting a Wild daffodil among the dappled shade of an ancient woodland, or pushing up through the grasses of a damp meadow. Once abundant and hand-picked for markets, this wildflower is now much rarer.