MAM Day XV Daffodils etc.

The prompt for today is “daffodils”

Okay, lots of photos of daffodils…pretty but…

I like the species name “jonquil”. It includes flowers that are a variety of yellows and whites, apricots and creams..

All jonquils are daffodils (genus Narcissus), but not all daffodils are jonquils. So there. I like the way the name jonquil rolls off the tongue better than daffodil anyway.

Here are some daffodils being restrained, or perhaps we are being restrained from getting too close to them?

Well now here’s a strange use of a daffodil…

What’s all this about? Remember Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? Ariel when they are about to be freed sings this song:

“Where the bee sucks, there suck I: 

In a cowslip’s bell I lie; 

There I couch when owls do cry. 

On the bat’s back I do fly…”

I love the character of Ariel, so here am I, like Ariel in a cowslip’s bell I lie…Only I cheated – by “in a cowslip’s bell” Shakespeare was referring to a primrose where Britons at the time thought faeries slept and not in daffodils but I didn’t have any photos of primroses so I thought a daffodil would do just as well…maybe even better, for the purposes of my collage.

This is a Shakespeare garden in Central Park. Lots of jonquils but no primrose. So who knows…

P.S. there is a Narcissus (paperwhite flower) called Ariel.

Here it is in all its translucent beauty. Nice to force and see in a pot in your house in winter…but I hate the smell.

Very shortly my front path will be lined with jonquils. Something to dream about.💤

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One thought on “MAM Day XV Daffodils etc.”

  1. nicolamorris2013's avatar nicolamorris2013 says:

    Your photos are so so amazing. thank you for the daffies plus. Just lovely. And I learned stuff. And this time of year is all about having faith, which you have in spades. About flowers. Jonquils.

    Hope you are feeling better?????????

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