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Jug of daffodils, where's yours?

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keepcalmandcavachon Mon 15-Jan-24 11:21:48

Mine are on the dining table, with the sun gleaming through them. Is there anything more cheerful?

NotSpaghetti Mon 15-Jan-24 11:23:39

I love daffodils early in the year.
Full of hope.

tanith Mon 15-Jan-24 11:27:21

I always have a few bunches in my Mums blue vase but I save it for St.David’s day in honour of our Welshness.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Redhead56 Mon 15-Jan-24 11:28:07

In the living room mixed with beautiful pale pink tulips our daughter gave me and a couple of sprigs of rosemary from my veg patch.

nanna8 Mon 15-Jan-24 11:28:09

How lovely. It is far too hot here for daffodils just now. I love when they are out but they don’t last long. Just a week usually for us.

AGAA4 Mon 15-Jan-24 11:28:55

I always smile when I see lovely golden daffodils growing on the wayside. A while to go before they flower here though.

Callistemon21 Mon 15-Jan-24 11:29:52

tanith

I always have a few bunches in my Mums blue vase but I save it for St.David’s day in honour of our Welshness.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Yes, I wait for St David's Day

The daffodils are growing well in the garden daffodil

J52 Mon 15-Jan-24 11:38:41

Not daffs, but a few sprigs of winter jasmine and red quince, in bud. On the mantle shelf, reflected in the mirror.

nanna8 Mon 15-Jan-24 11:39:52

When my lovely Welsh friend’s Mum died we all put daffodils onto her coffin. She had a wicker coffin. She was very ,very Welsh cariad.

Casdon Mon 15-Jan-24 12:12:05

I look for them straight after the New Year, it fools me that spring is coming soon. Mine are on the dining room table, with some winter flowering jasmine, in an old brown pottery vase that was my Grandma’s. .

keepcalmandcavachon Mon 15-Jan-24 12:17:07

They're so lovely, never met anyone who didn't like them and you can't say that about too many things!

fancythat Mon 15-Jan-24 12:56:33

Still growing in the garden!
Only got about 2 buds so far. I would say they are a few days earlier this year, than normal though.

JamesandJon33 Mon 15-Jan-24 12:59:18

Daffodils are for St. David’s day. I have a jug of fat white camellia buds on the dresser at the moment

midgey Mon 15-Jan-24 13:18:18

When I was working in London the flower sellers used to sell ‘souls’ they smelt so sweet and looked so cheerful. My mother said they were soleil d’or. Haven’t seen them for years.

midgey Mon 15-Jan-24 13:19:28

Apologies….they were called ‘sols’ not souls….autocorrect!

GrannyGravy13 Mon 15-Jan-24 13:20:07

On the island in my kitchen, gloriously bright.

spottybook Mon 15-Jan-24 13:53:01

When my mother-in-law used to come for Christmas she would always bring me a bunch of daffodils. I now carry on the tradition with my daughter and daughter-in-law. I should add she brought a huge food contribution as well as the flowers.

shysal Mon 15-Jan-24 14:06:11

I bought some last week from Asda, but they didn't flower, just shrivelled and died. I have tried again today with some from M&S which look healthier. They are on my kitchen window sill.
I always buy them at this time of year before any appear in the garden.

Bella23 Mon 15-Jan-24 14:13:35

I always buy a bunch of daffodils in January. They remind me of a long tedious nighttime journey quite a few years ago when we moved to our present house. We stopped at services for a coffee and to get provisions and I bought a bunch of daffodils.

Oreo Mon 15-Jan-24 14:19:53

Can we see some pics of the flowers? Would be nice.😃

BlueSapphire Mon 15-Jan-24 14:41:16

On my mantle-piece, my first this year

Purplepixie Mon 15-Jan-24 14:48:58

Lots of daffodils in my sitting room plus some yellow tulips. Gorgeous flower and full of hope of the better weather to come.

GrannyGravy13 Mon 15-Jan-24 15:15:48

Daffodils

Grandmabatty Mon 15-Jan-24 15:17:09

Mine is on the kitchen windowsill

Grandmadinosaur Mon 15-Jan-24 15:18:23

One (also blue) vase on living room hearth and another vase on kitchen window sill. Just bought 3 bunches in M&S so still tightly in bud.