Bloom time: my day picking daffodils against the clock

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Joining the workforce in Cornwall’s flower fields, I struggled to keep up in the rush to bring in a fragile crop post-Brexit

It’s the kind of day when the cloud is so thick that a heavy greyness hangs in the air. But not in the fields of Fentongollan Farm in Cornwall, where swathes of yellow roll down the hillside, brightening the dull sky with spring cheer. Fentongollan is one of the world’s leading daffodil farms, growing globally renowned varieties that are a dazzling sight in full bloom.

 

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Did this farmer vote for or against Brexit in the 2016 referendum? Cornwall voted for Brexit.

Well get people off the dole 2 pick them

Good to read some pickers earning good money for what must be a tough job but, if I was a flower grower in the EU, damn right I'd plant daffs next year, and millions of them.

Picking daffodils in cornwall sounds like a dream! Shame the fouloughers couldn't help

I read this pickling.

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