Getting to know our daffodils…

Drifts of daffodils of various sizes and colours are blooming in our garden at the moment, helped by the lovely spring sunshine we’ve been enjoying in the last couple of weeks or so. One of our sisters decided to try and find out how many kinds of daffodils we actually have growing in the garden. According to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) daffodils are one of the nation’s most popular plants with almost 32,000 daffodil cultivars listed in the Daffodil Register.

Well, so far, she has counted 12, including (she thinks!): Trumpets, Large cups, small cups, triandrus, cyclamineus, ‘doubles’, jonquillas and miniature kinds such as the Narcissus ‘Tête-à-tête’… And below is the result in pictures!

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.
~ extract from William Wordsworth’s poem Daffodils