Wild plants are essential to wildlife

THE COUNTRYSIDE has donned its mantle of green and you can scent the fragrances of early summer, especially the vivid yellow gorse that lights up the landscape in April. 

Bluebells are waltzing in the breeze and gladdening the world around us.

From days of our youth, we remember picking wildflowers like buttercups, daisies and primroses from the fields for May altars. There was then an abundance of wild plants, but modern farming practices and insecticides have killed a great deal of them.