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Digeroo:
Drove from Cirencester to Gloucester along A419 yesterday.  There is an almost constant yellow band of cowslips on the verges both sides,  I was an amazing show.   Millions of them.  Unfortunately nowhere to stop to take a picture.

Palustris:
There is a section of the A55 in North Wales where they occur like that too.

Obelixx:
Loads round here too this year as well as wild primroses and also "English" bluebells.  Far more than last year which is, I assume, a product of the wet winter.  They look glorious in the spring sun.

Digeroo:
They used to grow in huge perfusion on the North Downs in Surrey when I was a child, but people picked them and dug them up and they died out.  So it is lovely to see them protected by the traffic. 
I do cringe when I see recipes for cowslip wine.  We have them in the lawn and the plants only seem to last a couple of years, so the seeds are vital.   

ancellsfarmer:
Digeroo, you may relax in the knowledge that restorative planting has resulted in large numbers "conserved" by passing traffic along the A31 Hogs Back, especially upon the east bound carriageway from Farnham

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