Thanks Paul yes they do well in the open biggest problem round here is that the hazel copses haven't been coppiced for years so the lights not getting throughnice photo. we have both daffs and blue bells out in the hedgerows around here.
I might offer to do some coppicing in return for somewhere to pitch my tarp from time to timethat goes for most of the woods around North Devon I think, a lot of people don't even know what coppicing means.
It's the same round here Paul they charge outrageous prices for a tangle of rotting woodland thats had no maintenance for yearsi'd do a bit myself if I could find some woods to buy that weren't such daft prices.