I LOVE these St Peter’s Port daisies (Erigeron karvinskianus). I know, I know, for the environmentalist in me they are a complete disaster area because they are an alien species that’s naturalised itself all over great swathes of the south of Britain, starting in St Peter’s Port harbour in Guernsey in the 1860s then spreading out from there.

On the other hand, the sheer tenacity of a species that thrives in such inhospitable spaces is both to be admired and applauded. In fact, let’s not just applaud its tenacity and survival, let’s also celebrate its hopeful beauty caught between a rock and a hard place. It’s somewhere I find myself regularly these days.