It's Daffodil Time! Let's share some pics?!

Would anyone like to share their daffodil pics to brighten up this dreary day for us?! I hope so, I need a lift! And I love 'em so waving in the wind as they are today, for sure! (-:

Wordsworth's Poem:

The Daffodils

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.

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/WordsworthDaffodils.htm

A few from our garden--'tete a tete's' and 'jack snipe' and 'jet fires'

so bright and cheery...

'tossing their heads in sprightly dance'...

elegant and poised....

'jetfires' so prolific, perky, and cute...

and the hyacinth 'woodstock' a nice partner for the early mid-season daffs...

'wings of freedom' light and gay...

'pineapple prince' a strange name but a cute lemon yellow blossom...

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

and in a sea of blue...

and next to my favorite chair...

Thanks for sharing the photos and one of my all time favorite poems! I've been dancing with the daffodils all week here... must take & post some photos!

I've been eyeing "Woodstock" hyacinths for a couple of years in the catalogs.... saw some in person at the Philly Flower Show this year, and they went rocketing up to the top of my wish list, along with the 'Rip van Winkle' daffs that my mom fell in love with.

"The Daffodil Principle"
This is a story I liked found at www.inspirationpeak.com
It tells about a woman in Running Springs, CA who planted a whole hillside of daffodils...gave me an idea!
Sharon

sharon-- checked out the Daffodil link--what a lovely story and inspiration! And of course the challenge can be applied to all kinds of things in life...now to get started!

critter--I love the Woodstock hyacinths. They are a relatively new introduction (1996, I think) and available at retail for just the past few years. I am going to order a lot more, although i think I purchased these at HD or Lowes and they are very nice. I saw them in the park planted with a violet blue hyacinth and daffs and it was striking.

Let's see your pics?! Please!

http://www.amadorcountychamber.com/OnlineVisitorsGuide/FlowerFarms.html

This is a wonderful place to visit if you are near Amador County Ca. in April. We live about 3 miles from here, love visiting every year.
Jacquie

Daffs & Hyacinths

more daffodils

latebloomer, daff names, please
T, I love woodstock hyacinth and pineapple prince daff.

I do hope you can provide the name of the one under "elegant and poised." That looks like a great daffodil for shows - totally clean color and excellent form!

Ray

latebloomer! what a happy spring walkway! so pretty!

dguimo--Thanks for the Amador County link...a famous place--have been through there several times (on gold country field trips) but never in April to my regret!

sorry, rrog-- no name on those lovelies. I'll have to do more research.

Our Midwestern Daffodil Show is this Saturday and Sunday at the Zoological and Botanical gardens. I would love to be able to enter something...just for the fun of it.

I joined the Daff Society http://daffodilusa.org/ just last week and really know nothing about the flowers (except that I love them. and what I've learned on DG).

Any more pics? I hope so...

n. 'water music'

n. 'resplendent'

These are my favorites, a Mitsch introduction shown here in the Cincinnati Civic Garden. I would love to have some for my garden but can't find a source on the internet...

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the trumpet n. "St. Keverne"

n. 'biography'

Here is my daffodile picture, I dont know how I missed this thread. My daffs are long gone now :( but they were pretty while they lasted.

Here are daffodils "Tete-a-Tete" and "Dutch Master" together with Dutch Hyacinth "Marconi". The sword-like foliage you see are tall bearded iris.

Well Wordsworth's poem has always been my favourite and my children know to have it engraved on my tombstone when the time comes. Two years ago I was at Grassmere and Rydal Mount on Daffodil Day. This picture is a composite of some I made then.

Becky

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Most of these are some old daffs that came from my grandmother's house. She always said they were Golden Harvest. A few Jet Fires are in there, too.

Becky

Naturalised on the side of the creek. A spring is in the back right just this side of the fence. There are a number of different varieties of daffs here. They all came from my Mom, my grandmother and my great-grandmother.

Becky

These are in a flower bed out along the curb. They are growing out of a bed of lavender phlox. Normally the phlox is blooming at the same time as the daffs.

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Daffodils with grape hyacinths.

Not sure of this variety. It came blooming in a pot of mixed bulbs last year.

Becky

Jet Fire.

Another one I need to identify. It came in the same pot of mixed bulbs last year.

Gorgeous pictures, Becky! I especially like 'Jetfire'. I'm so glad I ordered that one for this Fall.

The pictures are so pretty! decolady--I'm happy you like Wordsworth's poem too. And I love your heirloom daff pics.

And I am always interested in good combination plants for the daffs...and of course, your little pooch is quite the appropriate garden ornament for spring bulbs, g in g.

I visited the Midwest Regional Daffodil Show today at the Cincinnati Zoological and Botanical Gardens. A beautiful day to be out enjoying springtime. The zoo has a million bulbs blooming this month and so it was quite a gay sight!

I had the pleasure of meeting the president of the American Daffodil Society who happens to live in Cincinnati----I knew of her from her columns about Daffodils on the Suite 101 site

http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/daffodils

very good articles if you want to learn more.

And some prize winners from the daff show...

And a bright and cheery pot of mixed daffodils underneath a ginko tree near the entrance. I wish I could create combinations like this!

I have had a lot of fun this spring making casual bouquets of our daffodils--

We planted a daffodil mixture from Scheepers in a little corner of our yard and it has provided all kinds of yellow beauties for the table...

Finally have some pics! Here's a new one for me this year, 'Sound'