I believe the latin name is Narcissus tazetta. I've spotted them all over the last couple of days... and today the one's in my yard bloomed. They grow along where the old fence used to be 25 or so years ago. They get mowed down all year, just because it's too hard to miss them. And they don't seem to mind! Wild Daffodils ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden ) Wild Daffodils - closer ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden ) Wild Daffodils - closest ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden )
Along with snowdrops seeing daffoldils always makes me feel optimistic. I think of both types of flowers as the heralds of spring. Many thanks for cheering me up with your lovely photographs.
My daffidols are coming up. They are three or four inches high. Iris's are coming up, too. Spring must be on it's way. When we lived in Wisconsin dr always bought me daffidols when they first appeared in the stores. It meant spring was coming in spite of the snow still on the ground. White and yellow are pretty. Mine are all yellow. dooley
The Dutch Irises I got from Toni have been up for about a couple of weeks... no blooms yet. But I bet it won't be long before they, too, show their bright smiling faces.
Wow, Spring has sprung. I'll bet if you moved 'The Wild Bunch' to be with the others, you would get a riot of blooms, from some happy Narcissus. Jerry
I feared for these brave little blooms today. I tried telling them to stay tucked away for just a little longer. We have freezing temps headed this way again. And it's only mid-January. But now that I think about it, they have been on their own for so long and come back year after year, decade after decade... now I'm not worried. Just happy to have them around.
Cheryl, those Iris I sent you will start growing in October-November (at least they do up here) but they don't bloom until about 5 months later up here. I think they just like hanging around so long so we get really, really anxious and are thrilled when they do bloom.
they are lovely!......i'm jealous...... i have to wait at least until March/April for my bulbs to start popping!
I just hope they didn't "pop" too soon... freezing temps over the next couple of days. I tried to tell them not to bloom just yet. :-D
What a lovely sight! Ok, I'm green with envy but it's still a lovely sight. The earliest bulbs seem to have built-in frost protection, but I guess if the frost's hard enough the blooms will go. At least they do here.
