You can’t miss them because they’re yellow

As some of you will know my knowledge of flowers is somewhat limited and the reason why so few blogs from me are about gardens and what grows in them.

Nevertheless there are some species I can spot with unfailing accuracy. Snowdrops are white, dandelions are yellow – until they go fluffy and so too are daffodils. I grew up in the city of York and there the Bar Walls at this time of year are full of yellow daffodils.

So you may guess my confusion when I came across these flowers growing in a Norfolk churchyard. My wife, who knows all about these things, pointed out they are all Narcissi . That threw me for a start. I thought narcissi meant something else – to do with pansies.

Even so I began searching out these white daffs as I continue to call them and this week you are lumbered with not only my mediocre pictures but also a mini lecture about them. (if you want to nod off through lack of interest – now would be a good moment to do so.)

Towards the end of the nineteenth century the vicar of Aldeburgh (the Norfolk one not the Suffolk one) planted many many different varieties of daffodils for the delight of his parishioners.

Not only do they make a beautiful display but they have spread and now the whole of the grassy areas of the churchyard are covered with these lovely flowers.

Wake up now – or at least do so before the weekend gets going. That’s it.

My thanks to those who wrote in last week about my massive computer failure. As it turned out my estimate of how many pictures had disappeared was about accurate – in total around 500,000 on the two drives. I learnt tonight that one of the drives – the main one – is probably repairable. Fingers crossed. Have a good weekend.