Wild Daffodils

As Spring approaches our woodland flowers take advantage of the available sunlight, before the leaves form on the trees and darken the canopy. One of the first plants to flower are wild daffodils creating swathes of early colour, which can still be found in ancient woodlands, like the ones below. Smaller than cultivated  varieties, usually 20 to 25cm high, native wild daffodils have large, single, yellow flowers, pale outer petals and a darker yellow cylindrical trumpet.