This almost-island on the Welsh coast is a nowhere becoming somewhere

Morfa Harlech, North Wales The eye follows the incoming tide across the beach, racing into dunes green with marram grassI know these plants: pyramidal orchid, lady’s bedstraw, common centaury, restharrow and wild thyme. I saw them up the Windmill hill only yesterday evening and to me they spell summer in the surviving fragments of limestone grassland on Wenlock Edge. I did not expect to find them so gloriously contradictory at the seaside. A tumble of dunes barricades the golf course below