Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud also commonly known as daffodils is a lyric poem by william wordsworth.
Daffodils. In 1802 william and dorothy wordsworths visited glencoyne park. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 april 1802 in which wordsworth and his sister dorothy came across a long belt of daffodils. When to plant daffodils. It is wordsworths best known work.
It is this visit that gave wordsworth the inspiration to write this famous poem. The picture is of daffodils at ullswater. Select a site that offers full sun or partial sun at the least. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 in 1804 by wordsworths own account it was first published in 1807 in poems.
Choosing and preparing a planting site. Daffodil definition a bulbous plant narcissus pseudonarcissus of the amaryllis family having solitary yellow nodding flowers that bloom in the spring. On 15th april 1802 they passed the strip of land at glencoyne bay called ullswater. Plant daffodil bulbs in the fallabout 2 to 4 weeks before the ground freezessee local frost dates and get more tips on planting fall bulbs.
Narcissus has conspicuous flowers with six petal like tepals surmounted by a cup or trumpet shaped coronathe flowers are generally white or yellow also orange or. Often the trumpet is in a contrasting color from the background. Daffodil narcissus pseudonarcissus bulb forming plant in the amaryllis family amaryllidaceae widely cultivated for its trumpetlike flowers. Excerpt from dorothys journal.
Daffodils the flowers symbolizing friendship are some of the most popular flowers exclusively due to their unmatched beautydaffodils belong to the genus narcissusdaffodil flowers have a trumpet shaped structure set against a star shaped background.