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In time, up came indigenous plants like knapweed and yellow rattle and more exotic blooms like Camassia, byzantine gladiolus.

He, along with his mother, until her death in 1972, also tended to the property’s various swaths of dedicated meadowland, from which, come the warmer months, wildflowers, including orchids, yellow rattle and buttercups, emerge at random.

The yellow rattle seed I planted has strangled the grasses that would otherwise prevent wildflowers coming through.

To help things along, Panting added native yellow rattle, which is partially parasitic to grass, to the mix of daisies, poppies and cornflowers.

But at Birkdale, women in bonnets and long hems have played over the shifting sands of time, gouging brassie shots through the yellow rattle and black knapweed and bog cotton, while overhead the ruddy darters and meadow pippits circled the Lancashire coastline.