Buttercup family is large one

THE window of the study in which I write looks out on a 10-acre meadow. While it’s not quite ‘unimproved grassland’ it’s also not managed intensively and is rich in meadow wild-flowers. 

Through the spring, summer and autumn the changing colours are a constant source of distraction to me as I sit in front of the keyboard.

At present it is dominated by the yellow of buttercups. Everyone knows buttercups. Buttercups and daisies are probably the first wild plants we identify as children.