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William
Shakespeare knew of these wild daffodils in the Warwickshire
countryside where he grew up in the late 1500s, when he
wrote 'The Winter's Tale' sometime before 1611:
"... golden daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty;"
Nearly
200 years later William Wordsworth was also inspired by seeing them in
Ullswater, Cumbria, when he wrote his famous poem. Read the full
poem
- and its various versions - at Wikipedia. "I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
Click
below for the special 'I Hate Daffodils' Poetry Page
Click
here to see Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's comprehensive
survey of wild daffodils in north Gloucestershire
(2.9Mb pdf)
 See wild daffodils for yourself at:
Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Whitberrow-Howe
Ridding Wood nature reserve
Devon Wildlife
Trust's Dunsford
nature reserve
Gloucestershire
Wildlife Trust's Gwen
& Vera's Fields nature reserve
Gwent Wildlife
Trust's Margaret's
Wood nature reserve
Hampshire &
Isle of Wight WT's Blashfod
Lakes nature reserve
Herts &
Middlesex Wildlife Trust's Stocking
Spring Wood nature reserve
South & West Wales Wildlife Trust's Coed
y Bwl nature reserve
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust's George's
Hayes nature reserve
Surrey Wildlife
Trust's Wallis
Wood nature reserve
Sussex Wildlife
Trust's West
Dean Woods nature reserve
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust's Harvest
Hill nature reserve
Wiltshire
Wildlife Trust's Oysters
Coppice nature reserve
and many other
places...
Contact your local Wildlife
Trust for a site
near to you.
If you
know of other places to see wild daffodils, please email
us with details of
the location, and we'll put them here too.
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