A Daffodil With Attitude — Breaking Records?
Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle
The tallest daffodil in the world?
It’s probably not — the tallest daffodil in the world, I mean — but it’s the tallest that’s ever appeared in our garden. We measured it at 112 cms (just over 44 inches).
According to Gardener’s World, “Daffodils range in height from about 5cm up to 45cm,” so maybe it was the tallest daffodil in the world after all. It lasted just a day, then collapsed.
It grew in a spot where we’ve never planted daffodils, but about 15 years ago, a farm a few miles away grew a commercial crop of daffodils. Although it was just for one year and they then went back to the more conventional oilseed rape and wheat, those commercial daffodils have been spreading around the neighbourhood ever since. They appear along field headlands and roadsides, bright ribbons of yellow, snaking further every year.
We’ve decided that our daffodil was a descendant of those escaped commercial plants. This one didn’t last long, but who knows what future years will bring.
Have you read The Day of the Triffids? Next time a flash of yellow catches your eye, be afraid. This is the eve of The Day of the Daffodils!
With killer daffodils on the horizon, it’s time to find solace in something good to read — look no further than these great storytellers: Mary Chang Story Writer, Ellie Jacobson, Dunelair, Dennett, pockett dessert, Susan Alison, Kris Bedenian, Kim Zuch, Jennifer Pierce, Stuart Aken, Linda Acaster, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Pene Hodge, Diana Lotti, Will Hull, Nicole Anders, Danielle Hestand, Madeleine McDonald.
