Wetter winters leave Northamptonshire gardeners and farmers puzzled

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Wetter winters leave Northamptonshire gardeners and farmers puzzled
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The high rainfall is causing headaches for gardeners and farmers in Northamptonshire.

Farmers and gardeners have said rain "falling almost every single day" has had an impact on rural life.

The operator of a children's farm, meanwhile, said he was having to keep more of his animals indoors for longer to protect his fields. Ben Barraclough runs Mini Meadows Farm in Welford, Northamptonshire, where families get a chance to meet everything from guinea pigs to llamas. "Since September, it seems to have rained every single day. It's not like a little bit of drizzle, it's absolutely torrential rain."Over at Coton Manor Garden, a popular tourist attraction in the grounds of a 17th-century manor house near Guilsborough, owner Susie Pasley-Tyler has been musing on the early demise of the snowdrops.

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