The fields and fields of oilseed rape round our village have now finished flowering and are no longer that violent yellow colour. My husband has stopped sneezing and snuffling.
But I'm worried for the bees and butterflies because the weather has turned cold and very wet, and the poor things cant find enough pollen to keep them going.
keberoxu, that's extremely interesting about pollinators. We kill off these insects at our peril. They're all part of the ecosystem and without them we'd have to go round with tiny paintbrushes pollinating all the crops ourselves (like exotic orchid growers!)