The Fritillaries I saw on Portholme Meadow yesterday are a rarity. Dandelions less so but there were plenty of them. And the grasses were speckled with the pale pink flowers of Cardamine pratensis, sometimes called Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock.

 Postscript I may have done a disservice to these Dandelions. Doing further research on Portholme I learn that the rare Marsh Dandelion (Taraxacum palustre) grows here. When I visited the meadow yesterday I hadn't fully understood just how important a habitat it is. For example it is reckoned to be the largest floodplain flower meadow in England.