They’re lovely. I’m a big fan of daffodils. You never hear much about the scent of daffodils, but it’s one of my faves when it comes to sniffin’ fleurs.
I wonder if (like so many other species) this is partly because hybrid cultivars look fancy but have less stink than the daffodils I grew up with, which were planted long before my family moved in, and had gone feral.
Although ‘feral daffodils’ sounds a lot more menacing than it ought to.
Have you guys ever heard Daffodil Lament, by the Cranberries?
I have decided to leave you forever.
I have decided to start things from here.
Thunder and lightening can’t change
what I’m feeling
AND-- the daffodils look lovely today.
AND-- the daffodils look lovely, today.
I do too. My favorite part is how it changes moods from dark to light to dark and back again. I associate that song with so many things. The words, “I have decided to leave you forever” have so much emotional weight for me (it’s a good thing).
I bet you can buy them in a florist’s shop. Often times they will put some in the freezer periodically and you can grown them as short-lived houseplants.
I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A pack, of feral daffodils;
Their vicious hunger to refresh,
Ripping and tearing at my flesh.
Continuous as an endless line
Of zombies in a horror flick,
They stretched their petaled jaws to dine
Upon the margins of my neck:
Ten thousand saw I, drenched in gore,
As quoth the flowers, “Nevermore”.
I always knew there was something missing from the original …