Fluttering and dancing in the breeze (Wordsworth), our native wild daffodils are a joyous sight. The Latin name, Narcissus, comes from the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus who fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water and became so obsessed that he fell in and drowned. The nodding golden trumpet of the wild daffodil embodies Narcissus bending over the water and the first flower is supposed to have grown from where he died. Sadly now a rarity in their native habitats because of woodland clearance, intensive farming and the indiscriminate uprooting of the bulbs in the past, wild daffodils are joining their cultivated cousins in gardens from where both types are renaturalising into the wild.
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