Still an incentive

“A regular correspondent asks your readers what is the point of planting daffodils in public places if they are going to be vandalised and if the authorities are not prepared to do anything,” writes Gordon Dilworth of Pitlochry.

“I would suggest that there is still every incentive for municipal gardeners and volunteerts to produce displays simply because the overwhelming majority of them do survive for us all to enjoy.

“I think it would be a sad world if we were all to take the ultra-cautious and misanthropic view that we should never do something beneficial unless we have a guarantee that, in the unlikely event of others spoiling our work, the law can pursue them.”