I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of plastic daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
With apologies to William Wordsworth.
The Lake District is famous at this time of year for its amazing displays of daffodils, especially thanks to Wordsworth’s poem, but the exceptionally warm winter and mild spring have meant that the daffodils have all flowered and wilted much earlier than usual, and, most importantly, before the tourists arrive. The South Lakeland Parks holiday park at Fallbarrow, on the shores of Lake Windermere, has responded by planting thousands of plastic and silk ones instead.
A Host of Plastic Daffodils … An Odd Manifestation of Climate Change Denial (Transition Culture)
(Image from the Daily Mail: Daffodils that inspired Wordsworth replaced by fake plastic flowers)