OU might imagine that, thanks to my plea a few weeks ago on these pages for exotic garden plants to be recognised for their valuable contribution to biodiversity in our gardens and their value to wildlife in spite of their country of origin (), I have little time for our native wildflowers. Nothing could be further from the truth. My love affair with Geoffrey Grigson’s began when I was at junior school and I still cherish the rough-paper scrap album of pressed and dried wildflowers that my mum
