A diary of back garden botany, urban ecology, rural rambles and field trips to the middle of nowhere...
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Narcissus pseudonarcissus is flowering here and there in the garden. Sometimes called the Lent Lily it hasn't waited till Lent this year. It is commonly known as the Wild Daffodil being indigenous to parts of the UK. Actually the bulbs here were grown and supplied from a smallholding in Wales.
When William Wordsworth wrote these words it would have been this species he saw while walking around Ullswater in Cumbria:
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."