Have they gone completely daffy? No more daffodils

If I'd known I'd have taken some Bombay Sapphire and Feverfew in my backpack ?

Added vitamins and colour for the G&T?

mokryna

Are the green bits tasty?

Sharp and tart like a lemon

maddyone

I’d rather get my vitamin C from an orange.
But each to their own I suppose.

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Yes, I decided I preferred an orange too.
And my water from a tap instead from some plant with hollow stems!

But remember these tips if ever you're lost in the Outback ?

I’d rather get my vitamin C from an orange.
But each to their own I suppose.

Are the green bits tasty?

Coastpath

Callistemon21

Her sister, when she was three, ate the ants she found on the balcony
I've eaten ants. Well, an ant's green bottom.

What? When? Why?

My mother in law used to tell a story about finding my husband sitting happily in the garden with half a slug on his bib. (he was a child - it wasn't recently!)

In Australia, Coastpath on a guided bush walk.
The ants with green bottoms are supposedly full of Vitamin C.

Callistemon21

^Her sister, when she was three, ate the ants she found on the balcony^
I've eaten ants. Well, an ant's green bottom.

What? When? Why?

My mother in law used to tell a story about finding my husband sitting happily in the garden with half a slug on his bib. (he was a child - it wasn't recently!)

Better not go to the Isles of Scilly as they grow narcissi and daffodils in abundance. Dd had a beautiful bunch sent to me for Mothering Sunday. It didn’t cross her mind I might be tempted to eat them! Their scent was absolutely gorgeous.

Btw all daffodils are narcissi but not all narcissi are daffodils.

All plants were wild until man decided to cultivate them for one reason or another.
Narcissus pseudonarcissus (commonly known as wild daffodil or Lent lily) (Welsh: Cennin Pedr) is a perennial flowering plant.

I hope Cornwall’s council plants something else instead for the community to enjoy. Maybe swathes of wild flowers?
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My mamma told me most plants are poisonous especially berries. I told my children the same and they in turn have told their children and their children have told their children. Something mammals do.

We all must have poisonous plants lurking in our gardens. I suppose they have been brought from lots of countries and they knew they are poisonous and we just appreciated the beautiful flowers. Near us we have a lot of Lilly of the valley and I'm sure someone told me it was as well. I must look that one up as the smell attracts the gd's.

Callistemon21 yes when looking up for information child it include pets., which is another future plan.

Yes, I knew some children who had to go to have their stomachs pumped after ingesting laburnum seeds. Not my child, luckily, she hadn't gone round to play with them that day because we went out.
They were all ok, luckily.

When I first moved here we went to a popular play park with the children.

I was surprised to see a laburnum tree in the children's area, and another mother told me a child had returned to his Mum to tell her 'the green peas' had made him feel sick! Luckily a doctor was present with his child.

Her sister, when she was three, ate the ants she found on the balcony
I've eaten ants. Well, an ant's green bottom.

mokryna

I was helping my daughter to plan for her garden last year via zoom. She wanted to make it future childproof. It was surprising how many ordinary gardon plants are poisonous.

Her sister, when she was three, ate the ants she found on the balcony.

Have you ever googled what is poisonous to dogs?
And they're worse than children for eating anything unsuitable ?
In fact, anything they come across.

I was helping my daughter to plan for her garden last year via zoom. She wanted to make it future childproof. It was surprising how many ordinary gardon plants are poisonous.

Her sister, when she was three, ate the ants she found on the balcony.

I’ve just bought three bunches of daffodils from M+S. I’m going to eat them put them in a vase and enjoy looking at them.

volver

Yammy

volver

It's like moths round a flame.... ?

Oh! give over isn't life fearsome and dreadful enough without someone turning it into a personal one-man rant every time. Laughter lightens the world it is also good medicine.

Depends who you are laughing at.

Yammy, I agree, JenniferEccles has been stirring the pot all afternoon, all rather childish. Glad you pointed that out.

Yammy

volver

It's like moths round a flame.... ?

Oh! give over isn't life fearsome and dreadful enough without someone turning it into a personal one-man rant every time. Laughter lightens the world it is also good medicine.

Depends who you are laughing at.

Im trying to resist tying up the miniature daffy leaves in the tubs at the front

GillT57

Callistemon21

I must say the daffodils have been glorious this year and some of mine are still in flower a month on.

It's a shame that they don't last as long when they are picked and in a vase, from bud to withered in a few days.

and don't they smell horrid when they wither? I prefer to buy pots of dwarf narcissus for the house instead, they last so much longer and can go outside for next year when finished!

I had hyacinths indoors this year and they smelt lovely but didn't last as long as I'd hoped. They'll be going out in the garden bed with all the others from previous years.

volver

It's like moths round a flame.... ?

Oh! give over isn't life fearsome and dreadful enough without someone turning it into a personal one-man rant every time. Laughter lightens the world it is also good medicine.