Country diary: The grass is up – and so is the pollen count | Paul Evans

The Marches, Shropshire: With the glory of summertime comes hayfever, which we are only making worsePurple and silver: the solstice grass flowers. This is the first year that the whole five acres of Brogyntyn park has been left uncut, and Oswestry has designated it a wildflower meadow. The transformation is enchanting. The many buttercups, ox-eye daisies and few orchids have privilege, but the grasses are the liberated proletariat that have never realised its full potential before.Common grass n