Daffodils are in flower at last! The unusually cold spring has slowed them down so they are blooming later than usual, but nothing stops them.
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| Daffodils in the Bealtaine garden |
Last night it snowed again, and a pristine whiteness greeted me in the Garden this morning. In my first post of this blog I wrote about the resilience of daffodil shoots, and the same holds true for the flowers. Looking closely at a daffodil flower you see delicate colours and pretty shapes, and catch a beautiful scent - but this is a tough survivor. Like many woodland plants it has a small window of opportunity to bloom and photosynthesise before the leaves develop on the trees and block out the sun. Evolution has done its job well, and the daffodil makes the most of early spring.
Today the waxy blooms and leaves had shrugged off the heavy, wet snow and looked radiant and wonderful under a bright blue sky. To me, daffodils symbolise the courage to push through harsh or difficult times, knowing that beauty and joy will blossom again.
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| Daffodil shoots in the morning snow |
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