An endangered flower is thriving in a woodland just a few miles from Bishop’s Stortford – under the flight path of Stansted Airport. A population of oxlips – primula elatior – is helping the National Trust in its work to save this rare flower from extinction. Priory Wood, located just a short distance from the airport’s runway, is home to several of these delicate yellow flowers that are found only in small pockets of East Anglia. The project involves the NT harvesting the seeds from the airport’s land, growing them in its propagation facility and carefully reintroducing them to Hatfield Fores…
