Daffodils

I took this pic on Boxing Day. This one has been in the garden for a few years, but it’s in a trough right up against the house, and our garden is very sheltered anyway.
I was still surprised to see it so early, though.

Still no daffs in store where I am in Scotland.

I have some paperwhite bulbs and some hyacinths in a pot in the garage. The hyacinths haven’t done anything apart from one which has a tiny bit of leaf showing.

Just returned from Sainsbury’s with a bunch of roses for £2.50.
Not a daffodil in sight and no sign there’s been any. Perhaps it’s because I’m in the North East?

I’ve just thought my prepared hyacinth bulbs are still in the dark in the garage. I must bring them in tomorrow then soon I will have beautiful scented flowers in the house. I usually like them just after rather than during Christmas but I’d completely forgotten them.

Tradition in our house to replace the Christmas tree and decorations with daffodils to remind us that spring is not too far away. Bought 2 bunches for £1 each in Asda today.

I love to see daffodils growing in the wild and a cheery bunch in the house.
When DH takes off walking we say he's gone for a wander with "Uncle Willie". Even Wordsworth wouldn't be up the fells today too wet and windy.

I don't like cut flowers in the house (allergies). Still, I grow lovely Paperwhites in a raised bed outside. (They can be forced, indoors, for Christmas flowering.) There's Winter Jasmine and Viburnum 'Dawn' flowering away outside - so it's like spring already!

M and S have them

Daffodils are in Waitrose, £5 a bunch, saw them today and before Christmas

I think ours come into stores in about February; I haven't seen any yet. I love daffodils, cheap and cheerful.

I was shocked to see that 2 🌼were just starting in my planter yesterday - but still not quite open today.

That's a great painting Joseanne. I love the way tulips wriggle and writhe too Oreo and he captures it beautifully.

December is early for daffs even in sunny Somerset VB000. They look naturalised too - great find.

Took this photo at the end of December here in S Somerset... love them - this variety is early every year!

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I've just remembered (while eating my lunch) that it was Henri Matisse. He said, there are flowers everywhere for those who want to see. Daffodils were specifcally in my mind because of one of his paintings.

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Georgesgran

Once Christmas is over, I like to buy cut daffodils (even though I hate yellow) and hyacinths in pots to lift the dark days.
No daffs in my Sainsbury’s yet.

I don’t like yellow flowers much either.
Only have a couple of pots of hyacinths in the house and in Spring I buy tulips cos I like the colours and shapes they make when they bend outwards.
In the garden I will have a pot or two of white narcissi.

My mother-in-law would always bring me a bunch of daffodils when she came to us over Christmas. Now when my daughter or daughter-in-law host Christmas I carry on the tradition.

The snow drops are peeping through in the garden. I like to buy the mini daffs in pots.

They are so lovely, daffodils. The flowers are very short lived here,though, because the climate isn’t quite right. Same applies to bluebells which spread everywhere but only last a day in flower.

winterwhite

Daffodils in January? Seems all wrong to defy the seasons. I’d rather wait for snowdrops, and then daffodils in March.

There are daffodils which flower in January. I planted the bulbs in my garden when I lived in Shropshire. I also bought January flowering daffodil bulbs for two of my friends. I've never seen the bulbs in garden centres, I sent away to a specialist bulb firm for them.

We always had daffs in the first week of January (if not before) when I was a girl.
My lovely dad sought the earliest ones out for mum.

Someone in our town left £2.3 million with a wish to plant a million daffodils bulbs around about.

A lot of the early daffodils and narcissi come from the Channel Islands. Their season is from December until March.

Beautiful ones from Scilly Flowers on St. Martins, Isles of Scilly, posted to arrive next day.

Daffodils in January? Seems all wrong to defy the seasons. I’d rather wait for snowdrops, and then daffodils in March.