Country diary: A truly golden spring for buttercups and dandelions | Mark Cocker

Snitterton, Derbyshire: I’ve had some glorious early mornings admiring the abundance of these much-loved flowers This spring has specialised in very specific kinds of abundance. In February it was snowdrops in extraordinary numbers, but last month it was dandelions. My most exulted sighting came as I drove out of upper Dovedale when, from the corner of my eye, I caught a blanket of gold running over the slope. The flowers held the foreground before the eye travelled onwards to Sheen Hill in S...

By Mark Cocker