With all the emphasis in my Flower Fields series on the human interest part of the story, I'm afraid I've neglected the actual flower subject of the fields. This is a ranunculus flower and it is one of about a billion or so in the fields. The workers harvest only a small portion of the flowers for sale in the shops. The vast majority are used to harvest the seeds, which are sold to nurseries around the world.

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