'GreenFire'

The first primrose of spring opened up its umbrella and showed itself at the weekend. Just one little yellow flower growing halfway up a laneside bank gave me a real boost - surely we will see GreenFire soon.
GreenFire, to the uninitiated, is what I call the flushing of green that marks the springing of Spring along the banks and hedges running along our Exmoor lanes.
At first there are just the winter-bare washed-out hedgerows, no definite colours, no leaves or sproutings. A week later a passer-by notices there is grass growing in the lane and a week later again he notices that the greenness has crept upwards through the bank and is suddenly flushing and flourishing into the bare hedge, lighting the edges of its buds and setting 'GreenFire'.
By late April the green has taken over and the hedgerows are in full bud, there are primroses and other spring flowers peeping out all up the banks and hedges and all is right with the world.
That poor first primrose, however, isn't even bravely heralding GreenFire now: Hoss saw it at the same time I did and promptly ate it.
But it'll be back and it will be millions.