EVERY spring when the daffodils come up, half the country must regret not planting more of these cheering bulbs the preceding autumn. 

NOW’S the time for planting bulbs for spring-flowering varieties such as daffodils. Hoping for early green shoots in their own patch of ground are the vendors of 38 Daffodil Fields in Cork.

WELL, there’s one at least comes along each spring with impeccable timing. This time no 30 Daffodil Fields is the first four-bed detached to burst onto the selling season, in tune with nature’s equivalent, hosts of golden daffodils.