The cultivation of narcissi has been an important cottage industry for the islands for more than 100 years, but now imported flowers from Africa and South America are serious competitors. 'Some 20 ...

Tourism, however, isn’t the only thing that these picturesque isles are famous for. It’s become near-impossible to look for flowers – particularly at this time of year, when narcissi are everywhere – ...

Isles of Scilly: discover the ... the Scilly Flowers team are busy producing and posting the islands' sweet pinks and narcissi across the UK. Scilly's flower growing industry began in the 19th ...

Continuing our series on the best of Britain’s local growers, Sarah Raven visits the narcissus fields of the Isles of Scilly Adam and I were married on December 31, 13 years ago and we had a ...

When I was there in late October last year, Scilly's white narcissus were just passing their peak, and rows of yellow narcissus were beginning to nod in the small, rock-walled fields.

Strewn out into the Atlantic off the southwestern tip of the England, the Isles of Scilly are an exotic escape from the mainland that bring a flavor of the Caribbean to the UK.

Scilly Isles. David Wilson + FOLLOW. Published: 12:00am, 28 Jun, 2006. Why you can trust SCMP. ... During spring, the isles are awash with narcissi and other exhilaratingly delicate flowers.

How to get to the Isles of Scilly The Scillonian ferry, which takes 2 hours 45 from Penzance to St Mary’s, is great for wildlife spotters, with the chance to glimpse birds and seals from the ...

Firebrand II slowed to a halt a few feet off the boulder-strewn shore of St Agnes, the most southerly inhabited island in the Isles of Scilly, and drifted over an unseen wreck by the same name ...

EXCLUSIVE I've been to all the Isles of Scilly - this is the best time to visit and the local delicacy you'll want to try. Andrew Walder lives on St Martin's and has visited all of the inhabited ...