Fields of gold: the best of Britain’s wild meadows

Many of the UK’s pastures have been lost to industrial farming, but pockets of verdant, vibrant land still brim with life, colour and noiseMeadows sing of the unfurling of spring and the bounty of late summer, reawakening the childlike sense of wonderment in each of us. To take a walk in a wild flower meadow is to experience the enchantment of nature. Knee-high native knapweeds, ox-eye daisies, buttercups and bloody cranesbill dance among feathered grasses. Meaadow browns and hoverflies cr