For those of you who are still snowed in, here’s a little ray of sunshine in the form of a bright yellow daffodil!

Daffodil is the common English name, narcissus is the botanical name and whatever you want to call these bright yellow-trumpeted flowers, they belong to the amaryllis family.

In mythology, Narcissus was an attractive youth who fell in love with his own image reflected in a lake. So besotted was he with himself that he couldn’t tear himself away and stared at his reflection until he died of thirst and hunger. The plant that grew where he died was named Narcissus.

In poetry, William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ is often referred to simply as ‘daffodils’. The prose describes a reminiscent view of the author’s wonderment when he comes across a large expanse of daffodils dancing in the breeze, beside a lake. Wordsworth goes on to compare the beauty of the lake with that of the flowers, concluding the daffodils far outshone the dancing waves.

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