Daffodils

 My sunny spring display on the bookshelves gave me an idea for a post about Daffodils especially as the few WI bulbs I helped plant on the grass verge in front of  the bungalow are just beginning to look good. I did query the plan of planting any here because the council come along and cut this bit several times each summer and if you cut the leaves off daffodils too soon they come up blind the next year.......or not at all. We shall see.

More WI bulbs were planted by members on the very oldest graves in the churchyard and they've all come up and should spread to make a good show in future years.

And sometime in the future perhaps they will look like these, planted on the bank outside the churchyard several years ago.

Of course there is a Daffodil Fairy in the Cecily Mary Barker book

whoops - a bit fuzzy- sorry

 

 

Then  I thought I'd delve a bit deeper............

 In my little book called 'The Folklore of plants' it says that people used to think that daffodils brought into the house while poultry eggs were hatching was bad luck and meant nothing would come of the eggs.

Never point at a daffodil - it will stop it blooming ......(?)

At the investiture of Edward Prince of Wales in 1911 there was an attempt to replace the leek with a daffodil as the national plant of Wales.......... it failed.( Are both are used anyway?).

 

Thought I was going to find more but apart from Robert Herrick weeping to see how quickly the daffodils haste away and William Wordsworth wandering and spotting a host of golden daffodils, I couldn't find anything else in my books.

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Sue