In my humble opinion, there are few sights as beautiful and evocative in the British countryside as a wildflower meadow in full bloom with bees buzzing and butterflies flitting from flower to flower as delicate grasses sway in the breeze, writes Erin McDaid of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. While a magical haven for wildflowers, such meadows are not ‘wild’ in any true sense — they are very much the result of millennia of human intervention to make something of a marvel — but a marvel that has sadly all but disappeared. Traditional hay meadows are a rare example of our ability to harness and e…
