Daffadown-Dilly

Daffodils are one of my most favourite flowers - their bright yellowness really cheers up grey days with the promise of spring. Cheap & very cheerful!

The egg cups in the picture above are lovely aren't they? They are going to be appearing in my shop one of these days - very Cath Kidston colours don't you think?
Eggs are courtesy of my hens.

Vintage sugar bowls make lovely little planters for spring bulbs.



"Daffodown-dilly" in the title refers to the old rhyme describing a daffodil which I loved as a child.

"Daffadown-dilly is come up to town,
In a yellow petticoat and a green gown"

The photo below was taken last year - a reminder of things to come.

Which is your favourite spring flower?

		DAFFODILS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee; A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company! I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.